Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dabbing her eyes with a cloth and clutching a photograph of her son to her chest, Sonam Dekyi, the mother of Tibetan political prisoner Ngawang Choephel, gave an impassioned plea to Harvard students last night to put pressure on the Chinese government to free...
About 50 people showed up in Harvard Hall to listen to a mother's story about a battle to free her only son. Students to Free Tibet, led by Sonia Inamdar '01, brought Dekyi to Harvard as she toured East Coast schools to gather support for the movement to free...
Speaking through an interpreter, Dekyi mixed calls for empathy with a mother's love with proclamations of her son's innocence and wrongful imprisonment...
...London. She is pleased to have conquered her own reluctance to appear in print as a poet, despite all the comparisons that await her work. And she wants to concentrate on the future, not her parents' storied past. "I can't ever know the truth," she says of her mother's suicide. "Why would I wish to dwell on it, when there is so much else in life...
...fated expeditions followed, intent on rescue, science or glory. One of these is Barrett's stage, on which two sharply opposed men, a bookish naturalist and a flamboyant expedition chief, struggle for the right to tell, or embellish, shabby truths. The chief ships an Inuit boy and his mother to the U.S., live specimens, and there she dies. That the naturalist manages to return the boy to his people is no victory, but merely--in a novel that moves like an advancing ice age--a partial payment of shame...