Word: filipino
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...wife Rose, 73. She was getting sick too. (Both would soon die from SARS.) When she took her husband into the E.R.'s waiting room, she sat near a man who was accompanied by two sons; all three were members of the 500-strong Toronto chapter of a largely Filipino Roman Catholic group, the Bukas-Loob Sa Diyos (B.L.D.) Covenant Community. The sons may have infected 30 other members of the B.L.D. Worse, B.L.D. members would expose an unknown number of people outside their circle to possible infection. On April 12, for example, one of the sons who had been...
SOUTHEAST ASIAN NIGHT. Hosted by The Harvard Vietnamese Association, Philipine Forum, Thai Society, Indonesian Association, and The Singaporean and Malaysian Student Association, SEA night promises a fifteen-course meal representing all nationalities involved and a slew of performaces including a Dragon Dance, Filipino Tinikling, and “Romantic Serenades.” Special to this year’s event is an exhibition of works by photographer Jacques de Roquancourt depicting the landscapes and people of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Friday, April 25, exhibition at 7:30, dinner and performances beginning at 8:30. $8. Exhibition in Leverett House...
...patriotism in the best sense (not in the monarchical sense) is loyalty to the principles of democracy, then who was the true patriot, Theodore Roosevelt, who applauded a massacre by American soldiers of 600 Filipino men, women, and children on a remote Philippine island, or Mark Twain, who denounced...
...Fully half of our women athletes are minorities and come from diverse socio-economic backgrounds. In addition, our coaching staff is a diverse group including an Israeli Jew and son of Holocaust survivors, a Chinese expatriate and recent emigre, and a Filipino-American who spent the early years of his life in an internment camp...
...million Filipino expats have been given the right to vote in the Philippines' national elections, beginning...