Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Faculty now elects a Faculty Council to voice their concerns, and student-faculty committees, however effective, have multiplied enormously from the days when many students said they felt powerless in the face of Harvard's "governing board of a few rich people," according to Jay Epstein...
...japed and jested like a group of sophomores about to be reprimanded for a prank. But for some of them, the humor led straight to the gallows. The men were among the 25 terrorists accused of attempted murder and conspiracy against Kuwait after seven bombs rocked the oil-rich gulf state one morning last December, leaving 60 wounded and five dead. "Long live justice!" cried one relieved young man among the spectators as Chief Judge Ghazi al Sammar declared five of the defendants not guilty. But in the course of his 15-minute verdict, Sammar dispensed sentences of from five...
...these may be the so-called mammalian dive reflex, which allows whales and seals to remain submerged in cold water. It is theorized that humans also have this protection. The reflex is triggered when frigid water splashes over the forehead and nose; nerves signal the brain to divert oxygen-rich blood from the limbs to the heart and brain. An even more important defense against brain damage is a phenomenon known as sub mersion hypothermia: the extreme cold of the surrounding water, and of water breathed into the lungs, cools the body (to about 85° F in Jimmy...
...Communists of the 1930s as portrayed in Seeing Red were not spies. In their youth they became overwhelmed by discrimination and the disgraceful living and working conditions in the fields and slums all over the country; the disparity between the rich and the poor moved these Americans to action. Told that in Russia there was no discrimination, no poverty, and total equality, they adopted the communist country as their living model, accepting it book, line and sinker...
Director Gregory Nava pointedly demonstrates, however, that this little paradise is at the same time a mini-Hell. Enrique's father, Arturo Xuncax, a coffee bean picker, secretly tries to organize his fellow laborers. "The rich came here. They're not from here. To them, the peasant is just a pair of arms," he tells his son before running off to his fateful meeting. The workers are betrayed by a fellow villager and ambushed by government soldiers. When Enrique runs to the scene, he finds his father's severed head dangling from a tree. In a rage, he stabs...