Word: ngo
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Clarissa J. Ngo '97 and J. Latisha Seabrook, astudent at the graduate school of education, alsocompeted for title of Miss Massachusetts. Lastyear's Miss Massachusetts was extension schoolstudent Sharon...
...American officials. "We strongly believe that Freedom House should be accredited," argued James Rubin, spokesman for the U.S.'s U.N. mission. The U.S. will continue the fight to reverse the ruling before the U.N.'s Economic and Social Council, which meets late this month in Geneva to ratify the ngo committee's recommendations. "Freedom House clearly ranks among the most reputable and effective human-rights ngos in the world today," says Assistant Secretary of State John Shattuck...
...annual report, Freedom in the World, Freedom House ranks each of the world's nations as "free," "partly free" or "not free." All seven members of the ngo committee that the report listed as "not free" -- Cuba, China, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Sudan, Swaziland and Tunisia -- voted against the organization. Their action highlighted a tendency among a coterie of nations often accused of political abuses, including Cuba, China, Iran and Indonesia, to continually fight U.N. efforts on behalf of human rights...
...eight competitors also included Graduate School of Education student Karen Y. Jackson and Lowell House blockmates Marcia M. Turner '97 and Clarissa J. Ngo '97. Turner was the second runner-up in the competition...
...Most people are undecided in the beginning because there is a lot of stigma against pre-meds," said Ngo. "I was in [one professor's] office and there was another guy there [and] the professor asked him what [he] is planning...