Word: roma
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...plane landed from Helsinki. Soon after her return, Serifovic became the object of a parliamentary debate, as legislators from various parties each claimed her support. "Marija Serifovic and her mother Verica both endorsed our party during the [January] election campaign," claimed Rajko Djuric, a chairman of the Serbian Roma Union, a party representing ethnic gypsies. "This is a shameless lie," retorted Aleksandar Vucic of the Radical Party. "Jasko Serifovic, Marija's grandfather, has been a member of our party since 1995." The debate was interrupted by the singer herself, when she paid a short visit to the parliament on Monday...
...Soon after her return, Serifovic became the object of a parliamentary debate, as legislators from various parties each claimed her support. "Marija Serifovic and her mother Verica both endorsed our party during the [January] election campaign", said Rajko Djuric, a chairman of the Serbian Roma Union, a party representing ethnic Gypsies. "This is a shameless lie," retorted Aleksandar Vucic of the Radical Party. "Jasko Serifovic, Marija's grandfather, has been a member of our party since 1995." The debate was interrupted by the singer herself, when she paid a short visit to the parliament on Monday, during the debate...
...staying away from politics is hard in Serbia, as Serifovic must be aware. In the weeks prior to the Eurovision contest, she was subjected to vicious attacks by Serbia's virulently nationalistic tabloids, some of which focused on her Roma (Gypsy) ethnicity. Others derided her looks, declaring she was "too ugly to represent Serbia," or tried to expose her as a lesbian. In her interviews, Serifovic persistently declines to discuss her private life and her sexual orientation...
While many of her classmates gravitated to Wall Street upon graduation, Emily L. Nielson ’04 decided to head to the impoverished border town of Roma, Texas. Now, as a Teach for America corps member, she is bringing a group of 15 promising students from her high school back to her alma mater to stoke their educational ambitions. In the week since their arrival last Saturday, the students will visit MIT, Wellesley, Boston University, Boston College, Tufts, and Northeastern as well as Harvard. Nielson said she chose those universities because she wanted to expose them to selective colleges...
...Saptaswara,” an understated and lovely blending of “Carnatic, Roma, Hindustani, Celtic and Western Classical” themes on guitar, mandolin, violin, tabla, and veena (an enormous stringed instrument), was also impressive...