Word: peopleã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...financial woes have infiltrated the globe, the Colombian finance minister proved that positive economic news can come from unexpected sources: in this case, the Colombian economy. Oscar Iván Zuluaga spoke last night about the recent strength of the Colombian economy to an audience of nearly 100 people??composed mainly of Colombians living in the Boston area—in the Tsai Auditorium in the Center for Government and International Studies. In a lecture entitled “The Strengths and Challenges of Colombia’s Economy,” Zuluaga used a PowerPoint presentation filled...
...screen, it suddenly became clear that Anna Deveare Smith was an impersonator. The all-consuming pain that Mutigwarba must have felt was only imitated onstage; she was the only one who could truly experience her emotion. Smith thus revealed her position as a medium through which these people??s stories could be told, stories that filled and carried the one-woman show. Without the testimonies of real-life Africans, Americans, preachers, and health care administrators, “Let Me Down Easy” would have simply been a play—a troubling but forgettable Friday evening...
Hundreds of students gathered in senior suites and House common rooms last Thursday to watch the showdown between Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and her Democratic counterpart, Joe Biden. While many people??from students to pundits—were vocal in their opinions of the candidates’ performances, few have the inside view of Andrew Halcro, who ran against Palin for governor of Alaska in 2006. Halcro, who attended an executive education program at the Kennedy School in 2003 and another at the Business School the following year, served as a Republican member of the Alaska...
...We’re not qualified to pad people??s resumes,” Alexander-Hoeppner added, in reference to the students who determine membership in the law journals, which may become the new mark of excellence...
...often seen as parasites who must prove that they deserve assistance, even when the job market, the education and health care system, and the shortage of affordable housing make survival tenuous for so many Americans. But the help we deign to provide comes with strings that tie up poor people??s worth as human beings into their status as dependents. We suddenly gain the authority to tell them how they ought to live and even attempt to sterilize them, as if a human’s worth to a society were solely in her economic productivity. We develop...