Word: priore
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...While prior generations of immigrants believed they had to learn English quickly to survive, many Hispanics now maintain that the Spanish language is inseparable from their ethnic and cultural identity, and seek to remain bilingual, if not primarily Spanish-speaking, for life. They see legislative drives to make English the sole official language, which have prevailed in some fashion in at least 16 states, as a political backlash. Says Arturo Vargas of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund: "That's what English-only has been all about -- a reaction to the growing population and influence of Hispanics...
Speaking in a fluid, inspirational tone, Williams recalled Bengal teammate Stanley Wilson's drug incident in Wilson's hotel room the evening prior to Super Bowl XXIII. The NFL suspended the wide receiver for cocaine use the day of the contest...
...people in this land prior to Columbus were human beings and weren't savages with no conception of living. We are deeply spiritual and cultural people, and you see that in this exhibit," said Slow Turtle...
There's nothing wrong with Broadway, an old adage holds, that three hit shows can't cure. Actually, not much has been wrong this season anyway. Blockbuster survivors from prior years were joined last fall by four musicals and three plays that all seem securely established, and major new works by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Neil Simon and August Wilson are still to come. But in a five-day span leading into this week, the proverbial three hit shows materialized nonetheless, one after another, gladdening the Great White Way's chronic curmudgeons...
Together with the better-known Wu'er Kaixi, Zhai was one of the students who engaged in a heated televised "dialogue" with conservative Premier Li Peng in the days just prior to the Tiananmen crackdown. At his reappearance, Zhai claimed to be spokesman for a new group called the Cooperative Committee of the China Democratic Salvation Front. Said he: "We founded the organization to show our sense of duty to our people and to emulate the spirit of those who died in June." Composed of more than 60 fugitives, the organization has elected a chairman, a vice chairman and four...