Word: fourteeners
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Francine Mukantarengwa is describing how she survived the genocide when my translator breaks down. "Fourteen people in my family were killed," she says. "The brother of the killer of my family - he hid me." At this point, the interpreter, a former fighter with Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), starts weeping. I let Francine go. She'd already told me about her life after the genocide. "I was abandoned," she said. "I was alone and I had nothing." And now? "Now I have goats, I have two cows, I have built a house. I have 700 coffee trees...
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown recently said at the U.N. that "to address the worst of poverty, we urgently need to summon up the best efforts of humanity." He called for "the greatest coalition of conscience in pursuit of the greatest of causes." Fourteen world leaders, including President Bush, and 20 major companies joined his call that day. Americans from all parts of our society already have their shoulders to the great global effort to end extreme poverty, and multitudes more are ready to join...
...Chinese are believed to have issued the world's first paper currency around 600 A.D., and fourteen centuries later, cash remains king. Cars and houses are bought, and even salaries are often paid, with thick envelopes of bills. To date, banks have issued only slightly more than 50 million credit cards to a population of 1.3 billion, according to a recent study done by the payment processing company First Data International. Credit card debt remains minimal - 85% of cardholders pay the full balance off each month. By comparison, Americans possess 640 million cards - more than double the population - with...
...other fourteen colors took turns for different cores, courses, events and activities. Justice was in orange. Computer Science was in purple. Senior gift was in brown...
...other day, at my weekly counseling session, the psychiatrist asked me what some of my coping techniques were. I thought for a minute and then replied, “Sometimes, when I’m lonely, I hold my pee-pee, really fast.” As the fourteen other students in my Tuesday afternoon Core section turned their faces away in disgust, the TF explained to me that this was not therapy, and that I had to leave Sever 102 immediately. As I walked through the Yard, I looked forward to an afternoon of warming myself by the giant...