Word: ola
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...Later, inside the house, Delight picks up a book he is reading for school, The Gods Are Not to Blame by Nigerian playwright Ola Rotimi, which transplants Sophocles' Oedipus Rex to Africa. He talks about his school and having to go to mass every day. He pronounces Catholic Cad-lick in his wonderful, treacle-thick Ghanaian English. There is a small table in the corner with a stove sitting on it. Pots and pans stack up under chairs that line the walls and on the shelves of a bureau that also holds a tiny color television. There is a small...
James Sanchez, 21, from the dusty high-desert town of Española, N.M., is a senior at Davidson College in North Carolina and an aspiring neuroscientist. He figured that at a bigger school he would have been lucky to spend his lab time washing beakers for the star scientists. At Davidson, where there are no grad students, Sanchez's senior thesis is an integral part of a larger three-year study of memory and learning in rats that may offer new insights into Alzheimer's. His professor anticipates that the research will be published in a top-shelf neuroscience journal...
...DIED. Rocio Jurado, 61, flamboyant singer whose blend of flamenco, folk and romantic ballads earned her the mantle "Spain's greatest"; in Madrid. Jurado recorded over 30 albums, five of which went platinum, and appeared in several films. Best known for the mesmerizing song Como una Ola (Like a Wave), she was also popular in Latin America and the U.S., where she performed at the White House for then President Ronald Reagan...
...hijab is “mandatory†according to the rules of Islam, Tellawi explains that many wait until they perfectly comfortable with their faith before proclaiming it so openly. 2:20- The hijab comes up again. “It is an equalizer,†says Ola Aljawhary ’09, Tellawi’s friend, in the Islamic Society prayer room in Canaday. “Liberated western women, in their tank tops and mini-skirts, complain about being seen as ‘sexual machines.’ I’m not into...
...Proceedings kick off with the Irish oyster opening championship, but the highlight for most visitors is the international shucking contest, when contestants from as far afield as Singapore and Estonia compete for the world title. Scandinavians have held the top spot in recent years (in 2004, Oslo chef Ola Nilsson unseated the previous year's Swedish winner). The trick is to combine speed with precision. Competitors are penalized if their oysters contain grit, or if flesh is improperly detached from the shells or damaged...