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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...

Author: By Jamie H. Ginott, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: An `Object' of Affection: Talking with Paul Rudd | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bagaric Discusses Bosnian Problems | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Childhood Nightmares | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Jie Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Japanese Culture, Politics To Blend At ECJAL Conference This Weekend | 4/3/1998 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Puerto Rico: 51st Estado? | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

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