Word: ethiopian
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...speaks in 'Gez'--an ancient Ethiopian language--his voice rising and falling in harmony with the congregation. The men sit on one side of the church, the women on the other. At the back of the church, a few adolescent boys huddle together, whispering--the service has been two and a half hours long and they are restless...
...Portuguese service at St. Anthony's Catholic Church in East Cambridge have become a tradition over two decades. The Ethiopian service, held at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Central Square, struggles to build its new congregation...
Seble W. Argaw, director of the Adbar Ethiopian Women's Alliance, began her fledgling organization only seven years ago--and it is still run out of a basement room in the Old Cambridge Baptist Church...
...American Stacy Dragila bested a bevy of blonds to win the first-ever Olympic women's pole vault; as Romanian Gabriela Szabo held off Irishwoman Sonia O'Sullivan four times in the stretch to win a thrilling 5,000-m race by a quarter of a second; and as Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie nipped Kenyan Paul Tergat at the wire in an even more exciting...
News of Ethiopia's victory in Zalambessa was received with jubilation in the capital, Addis Ababa. Thousands of people gathered in the city's main square and cheered on truckloads of waving Ethiopian soldiers. At the office of the government representative, a computer screen saver read, ZALAMBESSA LIBERATED!! Chief spokeswoman Selome Taddesse popped open a bottle of Ethiopian Champagne as her staff danced to a popular song celebrating past Ethiopian victories. "I've been waiting for this day for two years," said Taddesse...