Word: haile
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...Samuel’s third objection, it is true that a great number of final club members do hail from wealthy backgrounds and private schooling. Yet, there are also many members who fall into socioeconomic brackets closer to the middle. Many final clubs provide financial aid for members who qualify. Furthermore, it is hasty to write off all club members as spoiled boys—many of them are as down-to-earth as their non-club counterparts. One final club president told me recently that he plans for his club to undertake community service projects this year...
...Saigon for a 10-week tour, his second in two years. His plans include a series of three-day Buddhist mass-chanting ceremonies, the first starting March 16, to pray for the dead on all sides of the Vietnam War, unprecedented "Grand Requiem" ceremonies that Nhat Hanh's followers hail as a leap forward in Communist-Buddhist relations...
...success in service. “There are still great public service visionaries in this country,” McCarthy said. The Kennedy School hosts the conference each year, giving students a three-day crash course in public policy careers from speakers and workshops. The students traditionally hail from under-represented minority backgrounds, and Harvard foots the bill for their travel and accommodations. The speech drew loud applause when Khazei spoke about the role students could have in the shaping of current events. “I have no doubt that it will be students that will...
...stay on the edge of his seat—that’s when you first know that X Plastaz is not just another Wu Tang wannabe. For starters, Gsann and his crew—his brother Nelson (aka Nelly) and fellow rapper Abdalla (aka Ziggy)—hail from Tanzania, an ocean away from the flashy champagne parties and East-West beefs that characterize American hip hop.Their hometown is Arusha, a small city in northern Tazania. It lies in the center of the land occupied by the Masaai people—traditionally, nomadic cattle herders.The three rappers, along...
...radical slice of experimental cinema verite shot by an unknown director in Super 16 mm, about a Jamaican boy who leaves the idyllic poverty of the countryside for the squalid poverty of Kingston to follow his dream of becoming a recording star, only to die in a hail of bullets on the beach? Although Henzell's film was a sharp critique on the closed, cutthroat circle of corruption between the island's music industry, police, and drug dealers, what eventually made the rest of the world take note was the film's blistering soundtrack, which was a breakthrough moment...