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Word: bejadini (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...raising it has become increasingly important. In the U.S. fund raisers work from coast to coast, using any Albanian gathering as an excuse for inviting donations--$60,000 was raised at a Chicago funeral, for instance. But all kinds of Albanians are responding to the call. Avzi Bejadini, an ethnic Albanian peasant in western Macedonia, tells how he and others in his village have scraped together money that they pass along to the fund raisers who parade through the countryside. "We all have emptied our pockets because of the obligation we feel toward our ethnic Albanian brothers in Kosovo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fighting Chance | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

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