Word: homelands
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...sites across the United States by January, Harlow said that the involvement of the two Harvard schools is of special importance because they are the only sites in Cambridge and have high visibility. “Everybody knows Harvard University, and their participation helps to create awareness of the Homeland Link program, which leads to others offering their facilities,” he said...
...senior honors thesis, entitled “Speaking for the Homeland: the Political Activism of Tamils in Toronto,” dealt with the question of whether Tamils—a minority ethnic group in Sri Lanka and India—living in a different part of the world can claim to represent the people of their homeland through activism...
RESIGNING. TOM RIDGE, 59, as the first U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security; TOMMY THOMPSON, 63, as Secretary of Health and Human Services; and JOHN DANFORTH, 68, as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Ridge's nominated replacement is BERNARD KERIK, 49, the plainspoken former New York City police commissioner who helped guide the city during the Sept. 11 attacks and was a vocal supporter of George W. Bush's re-election...
University President Lawrence H. Summers wrote letters last April to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Tom Ridge ’67 suggesting that a decline in the number of international students who studied in the country would harm the nation’s international stature...
...News from Paraguay is the story of Ella Lynch, a lovely, lusty young Irishwoman who in 1854 meets and arouses the ardor of Francisco Solano Lopez, the cruel and debauched son of the dictator of Paraguay. Francisco--"Franco" to his friends and numerous enemies--spirits Ella off to his homeland, a half-savage tropical Eden complete with snakes and crocodiles and cannibals, oh my, where they live in conspicuous luxury until Franco (who is, like Ella, an actual historical figure) leads the country into a disastrous war with Brazil...