Word: birthed
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Mureji A. Fatunde ’12, a Nigerian by birth, said “It’s amazing because in my high school we were always saying it would be really cool to meet him when we were reading the book, and now that I’m at Harvard I’ve met him within three months of being here...
...Tale into a farce. Desplechin is aware of the humorous cross-currents in the film, but he's not out to exploit them. He's a more serious filmmaker than that, interested in exploring the wayward, occasionally inexplicable tensions of a group bound together more by the accidents of birth than by any true communality of interests. Families are supposed to love one another - that's the social convention. But lots of times they don't. They just make do, with tension and guilt...
...paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. The language of the Sermon on the Mount - if someone hits you, turn the other cheek - he's making a creative leap, and that's the death of an old way of thinking and the birth of a completely new way. Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity...
...more into the workforce. With some 30% of the population stuck in poverty and 7.4% without jobs despite the nation's steady economic growth, Filipinos see few opportunities at home. Isabel Pedrosa, who lives in a village near Mabini and whose 20-year-old son has been immobile since birth with severe cerebral palsy, says her family's state health insurance covers some bills but not all of them. Her husband is a construction worker in Qatar. "If not," she says, "we wouldn't be eating three times...
...abandonment can linger. In a dimly lit living room in suburban Manila, Rebecca Lucero watches her teenage son, John Patrick, bolt past and pound up the stairs. Lucero says he is a good kid. He does well in school. But, she adds, "I feel uncomfortable around him." She gave birth to her son, now 18, when she was working at a Holiday Inn in Abu Dhabi. She took him back to Manila to live with her mother when he was 3 months old, and left him there for 11 years while she continued working in the Middle East. "Now, sometimes...