Word: compatriot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lead "lovely contadine" in this production are both well-chosen for their roles. Cary Rosko sings the part of Tessa (Giuseppe's wife) loudly and down-right charmingly, although she could stand to be a little more silly (this is Gilbert and Sullivan, after all), like her compatriot Julie Quenlan, a graduate student at the New England Conservatory who is delightfully over-the-top as the giggly and giddy wife of Marco, Gianetta...
...fire on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square; in Beijing. A veteran of the Long March, Shangkun was an acolyte of Mao Zedong, and later his victim, imprisoned for 12 years during the Cultural Revolution. Rehabilitated in 1978, he was put in charge of the army by longtime revolutionary compatriot Deng Xiaoping...
...students were. As one of the pro-democracy movement's leaders said, the heroes of the tank picture are two: the unknown figure who risked his life by standing in front of the juggernaut and the driver who rose to the moral challenge by refusing to mow down his compatriot...
TIME's Weekend Review At the end of a week of legal woes for Microsoft, the revelation that TIME's man of the year is a close compatriot of Bill Gates' will come as a bittersweet blow for the Microsoft billionaire. Where did he go wrong? Read the Review...
Joshua L. Solomon '96, who lived with Piedrahita during their sophomore year, praised his former roommate for being idealistic and naive, saying that millions of people who never knew him nonetheless have lost a valuable compatriot because of the good Piedrahita had dreamed of doing in his home country of Colombia...