Word: miriam
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...Miriam Makeba's voice is as majestic and contoured as the Magaliesberg, a range of sloping grassy peaks near her home city of Johannesburg, South Africa. Makeba's nickname is "Mama Africa," and rightfully so. You can hear her homeland in her voice. As she lags behind a beat, drawing out emotion, one feels the weight of apartheid bearing down. Caught up in one of her forceful, husky glissandos, it's hard not to imagine soaring above the lush expanse of the African veld...
...Miriam S. Udler '03, Leverett House
...just weren't getting anywhere in dialogues," said Miriam R. Joffe-Block, the Penn senior who coordinated the protest. "We felt this was the only way to get the administration to see that we were really serious and to take action...
...Simon J. DeDeo Adeyemi K. Delbridge Rashid A.H. Delgado Matthew F. Delmont Roanak V. Desai D. Lawson DeVries Stefanie E. De Santis Joseph P. Di Pasquale Jennifer L. Diebel Ravi K. Dixit Chris-Tia E. Donaldson Elizabeth K. Dotson-Wesphalen Mara J. Dowdall Jesse S. Downs Chloe L. Drew Miriam E. Droller Alexandra B. duPont Brent W. Dusing Katherine D. Earls Hetty B. Eisenberg Fareed A. El-Amin Courtney E. Ellis Stephanie L. Ellis Lillian J. Epstein Sam Erman Valeria N. Escobari Kevin C. Etten Quincy R. Evans M. Jake Ewart Ewurama E. Ewusi-Mensah Alice H.S. Farmer David...
...grew up--she called him Yeshu from his full name, Yeshua--in the same narrow town: one narrow lane, two rows of rock houses, sealed with mud and roofed with branches daubed with mud, and each house full of the mouths he could hear saying "Bastard, Miriam's bastard boy, God's big baby!" His mother's story had leaked out somehow, likely through Yosef, who claimed that he had dreamed it but nonetheless married her, took in Yeshu and made other sons and daughters on her body. All of them grudged the favors their mother gave Yeshu...