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...Russian/Polish descent, I am in real life the other kind, which is the character that I'm portraying in this play, and I think this character is a lot more eloquent and rooted in who he is and how his religion influences his life, maybe a little more than...
Striving to overcome his limited English and express himself beyond his written speech, Bagaric, a Bosnian of Croat descent, stressed the importance of interethnic and international exchange among Bosnia's ethnic groups...
...father and Francie himself in the film's last scene) in the wryly humorous tone of a man looking back self-indulgently on a mischievous boyhood that came out all right in the end. But the personal history he recounts includes hugely destructive vandalism, arson, murder and a descent into decades of madness. The latter encompasses visions of the Virgin Mary (Sinead O'Connor, no less) appearing to him looking like a gaudy lithograph and behaving like a seductress; of priests looming up as giant science-fiction insects; and of his town's being destroyed by The Bomb, which incidentally...
First launched at Brown in 1990, the original effort aimed at creating unity among Japanese students and students of Japanese descent. It included students from 13 universities...
...Others weren?t so enthusiastic. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, a Chicago Democrat of Puerto Rican descent, voted no. And he pointed out the main problem the bill now faces: ?With the division evidenced here in the House, I don?t believe the Senate will find the time to take up this measure.? Not to mention the Puerto Ricans themselves; in a 1993 plebiscite, which was non-binding, only 46 percent of the islanders favored statehood...