Word: sisters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American in the last decade; they are possessed by a consistent urge to expose the world as the ludicrously cruel place that it is. To use his word, his plays are "giddy" with the realization that life can be damned stupid. "God always answers our prayers," he writes in Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, "But sometimes the answer...
David Grosser, a member of the Cambridge-El Salvador Sister City Project, testified that he and Susan Freireich would join a group leaving Thursday to seek the release of 11 villagers who have been arrested by Salvadoran police. Grosser said the council's endorsement would "ensure our safety on this trip" and lend force to their requests...
...group invited two Cambridge citizens to join its investigative mission because of the pending sister-city relationship, said Freireich. As of last night, both Cambridge and San Jose Las Flores had invited each other to establish the relationship, but no formal ceremony has formally united them...
Duehay said official support for the visit would represent an "escalation" of Cambridge's role as a sister city, which he said was intended to involve no more than humanitarian aid and cultural exchanges. "The whole notion of getting involved in the internal politics of a state through the sister city project is not appropriate," he said, adding that Cambridge should instead ask Massachusetts Senators John F. Kerry and Edward M. Kennedy '54 to lodge formal complaints about the invasion...
...vote had been scheduled on the motion that will make the sister city bond official. However, the Council postponed consideration of this order until a hearing on April 27, when the mission will have returned...