Word: countrymen
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...terrible things in Kosovo,” he acknowledged of his Serbian countrymen. “We have a responsibility to our children...to confront the past...
...unfriendly audiences. His campaign rallies were carefully screened and so are his policy events where he chews the fat about issues like Social Security. But that instinct surely can't be serving him well at a time when the country feels like a collective primal scream over seeing their countrymen left suffering...
...child of the pacific diaspora, it seemed a perfect place to meet: amidst the clamor and conveyor belts of Auckland Airport. This year 1,100 Samoans will officially migrate to New Zealand, swelling the ranks of the estimated 115,000 of their countrymen - two out of five Samoans - who live there. Sima Urale is one of them. To identify herself at the airport meeting, "from a million islanders flying out and arriving that same day," she's sent through a passport photo of herself - though when she turns up, hair cascading over a tracksuit top and jeans, there...
...least people like Shimogaki?struggling nobly in the face of adversity?enjoy a measure of sympathy from their countrymen. In comparison, no consequence of Japan's restructuring has so vexed the country as the rise of the "freeter"?the name for a highly educated young person who seems to have it all but stops trying. Because a college education has become less likely to guarantee lifetime employment, the sons and daughters of baby boomers have increasingly resorted to taking part-time or temporary jobs without high pay or much chance of job development. (Coined by a job-placement magazine, "freeter...
...Philippine President delivers a State of the Nation speech every summer. Last week Gloria Macapagal Arroyo jumped the gun on the speech scheduled for July 25 because, as she told her countrymen in a hurried radio address, the nation's state was so parlous it needed fixes that couldn't wait. "Let's confront the biggest, most painful political truth ... our political system has degenerated," the President said. Arroyo ordered her Cabinet to step down and announced a crusade to reform the government, reducing red tape and cleaning up the election process. Arroyo also said she couldn't resign...