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...English. Lowell, Massachusetts, was a fading city of 19th century textile mills until 1985, when the Federal Government chose it as a resettlement site for Southeast Asian families. This year, aided by federal and state grants, Lowell spent $5.9 million on bilingual education; courses are offered in Spanish, Khmer, Lao, Portugese and Vietnamese. All communications between schools and parents are translated into five languages. At the Cary Reynolds elementary school in the Atlanta suburb of De Kalb County, Georgia, students from 25 foreign nations speak a medley of languages ranging from Mandarin to Farsi...
Julia M. Reyes '95, president of LaO, says that she understands how the test can be biased, although she did not encounter any discriminatory questions when she took the test herself...
...trying to integrate SAA into the family of organizations on campus, including AAA, BSA, LaO, RAZA, and the Islamic Society," Parikh said...
Julia M. Reyes '95, president of LaO, also said the breakdown of the alliance into smaller working groups does not signify a breakdown of the coalition...
...remote northern province, the village chief (Lei Lao Sheng) has lost his temper and kicked a man (Liu Pei Qi) where it hurts. But Qiu Ju (Gong Li), the man's wife, is hurt mainly in the pride, and she resolves to get satisfaction for this slur. The local public-security bureau agent, Mr. Li (Ge Zhi Jun), a reasonable politician in a hopeless situation, tells the chief to pay Qiu Ju and her husband 200 yuan in reparation. When she comes to the chief for the payment, he strews 20 10-yuan notes on the ground...