Word: ramoses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In the wider world, East Timor is a geopolitical footnote, a mere half of an island that became a short-lived nation, born in fratricidal guerrilla war and eventually swallowed by its giant neighbor Indonesia. For 21 years, despite reports of abuses by Indonesia, East Timor has been a subject...
The Nobel Prize was awarded to Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, East Timor's Roman Catholic Bishop; and Jose Ramos-Horta, an exiled publicist who had ties to the island's independence movement.
If this onslaught is causing them any tremors, employers are not letting on. Jeffrey McGuiness, president of the Labor Policy Association, a corporate lobby group in Washington, says, "College students breezing in and telling people they are better off joining a union--and then breezing back to school again--that...
While the students had been prepared with reading lists (Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals) and video lists (John Sayles' film Matewan, about a coal miners' strike), some found themselves reluctant to embrace the gamut of militant tactics. There were nervous titters during training when Quynh Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American...
Ramos ended up taking out more loans. Last fall, he joined the Reserve Officers Training Corps, which now provides him with a scholarship. He still holds a job, though, to cover personal expenses like transportation and phone bills.