Word: slavic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Most Segregated Hour It is Sunday morning in Sacramento's Meadowview community, and hundreds of Russian-speaking immigrants-men in dark suits, women in traditional head scarves, children excited about the latest X-box game-are thronging into the First Slavic Evangelical Baptist Church. A couple of blocks away, African Americans fill the sanctuary at Twenty-Fourth Street Baptist Church to listen to the Rev. Samuel Mullinax preach the same Gospel. An hour later, Latinos begin filing into the pews of nearby St. Anne's Catholic Church for a Spanish- language Mass. Meadowview residents live together, but many pray separately...
...When Ukrainian immigrant Tamila Demyanik says, through an interpreter, that "the church is the major part of my life," it is no understatement. To the Demyaniks, First Slavic is a lifeline in a foreign land. Her husband buys bread at First Slavic and checks its bulletin board and a Russian phone book for community information. Longtime church members accustomed to America provide emotional support to newcomers and help them negotiate thickets of red tape in health care, housing and more...
...attempt to write the Great American Novel. In 1991 the inaugural issue of the English-language weekly Prague Post proclaimed, "We are living in the Left Bank of the '90s." So where are those novels, and how great are they? A decade later--blame it on those long Slavic siestas--the Hemingways of the East bloc are finally here...
...don’t expect any first-years to choose their concentration based solely on these rankings, nor do we think that anyone should. Obviously a budding scientist will not choose Slavic Languages and Literatures merely because it is second in our rankings, but the rankings may help an aspiring political scientist decide between Social Studies (ranked 21st) and Government (ranked 36th). As with the CUE Guide, students can also pick and choose what criteria they care most about. Concerned most with tutorial size? You can focus on that part of the rankings. Interested in a concentration?...
...When I go to MIT, there is always this sense that I am at home, this is where I belong,” Pejkovic says as she rests her slender hands on a Slavic-language architecture magazine. “The people in my studio—those people I work with everyday—they really know me the best. I’m not always sure though that I am really missing out on something that is found at Harvard. Besides my friends in Folk and Myth, I’ve never really heard of anyone feeling...