Word: emmanuells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...elite are after money: some just want power. A candidate angling to fill the seat of the deposed Aristide is Emmanuel Constant, leader of the paramilitary Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti. He presides from a wicker chair in his backyard over a ragtag group that has been accused of committing many of the 133 political executions and 55 disappearances documented over the past four months. Constant protests his group's innocence. "If anybody from F.R.A.P.H. kills somebody," he says, casually tossing his cigarette butt into a barren flower bed, "it is personal, not political...
Percussion, in fact, did not come into its own until the mid-20th century, which is one reason why the repertory is so sparse. Glennie is an active commissioner of new works, among them fellow Scotsman James MacMillan's Veni, Veni, Emmanuel, a thorny, dissonant, virtuoso showpiece that got its triumphant American premiere a fortnight ago in Washington. She works closely with composers, advising on matters of technique and, in return for her commission, extracting a promise that the score will be hers exclusively for one year. Her taste runs also to arrangements of Chopin and Joplin, as well...
That does little to clarify the case. Oluloro traveled to Oregon to marry a fellow Nigerian who had a U.S. residency permit. Over the years, she says, she and the children endured beatings by her husband Emmanuel, leading to a divorce last year. Lydia, who works as a janitor and has custody of the girls, lost the right to stay in the country because Emmanuel never completed the paperwork necessary to give her legal-residency status. She says she cannot leave her children to an abusive father -- but how can she take them home to an abusive culture? Emmanuel contests...
...scholarships provide placement at Trinity or Emmanuel Colleges and a stipend to cover all expenses for the year, including transportation, some travel, and housing...
...hopes to study the History of Science at Emmanuel, Colville plans to study Social and Political Theory at Trinity College, also in Cambridge...