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...could begrudge a dying baby the means of survival. But Debbie Pinheiro, Justine's mother, admits, "We really get jealous over it." Debbie, 20, and her husband Jose, 24, a welder, have tried to match the Fiskes' effort to focus attention on their daughter's plight. The Pawtucket, R.I., couple have also petitioned their Congressman and been headlined on the front page of the Providence Journal. "I hope that the same thing that happened to the Fiskes happens to us," says Justine's mother. "I'm nobody important, but I'm determined to fight...
WHAT HOLDS ALL THESE revolutionary approaches to gather is consistently superb line reading not only on the classic soliloquies but even during the endless stretches of desultory verbal fencing. He even incorporates the rarely heard second second-act prologue which summarizes the lovers developing plight...
...kidnapping as news fit to print. Yet previously, two long articles relating problems Times correspondents had encountered while reporting in Israel were published--one on May 29, 1979, the other on February 3, 1980 Last year, the Times also ran an article on the front page describing the plight of a correspondent held for a day by authorities in the Soviet Union...
...first seminar, to be offered at PBH in conjunction with Boston's International Rescue Center, will focus on the plight of Vietnamese refugees. They had a very different struggle from the people from Hong Kong and China," Min says. Recalling a time she tutored a group of newly arrived Vietnamese immigrants. Min says she got an unexpected reaction from her students when she brought up the subject of holidays and family gatherings "Half the students started shaking. A lot of them had lost entire families...
Other such examples are abundant. There is scarcely an alumnus of Canaday Hall whose sensibility has not been shaped by the life of Ward Murphy Canaday '07, the designer of the military jeep. In Stoughton Hall, social outcasts have gained perspective on their plight by recalling the legacy of Lieutenant Governor William Stoughton (Class of 1650), who presided at the Salem witch trials...