Word: spokenness
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Democracy, for all its imperfections, at least offers society's less fortunate the hope that their lives might one day change for the better. This is a perk that Kurnia Riza, one of millions of downwardly mobile Indonesians, does not take lightly. The soft-spoken 28-year-old was until recently a purchasing agent and union representative at a Jakarta factory run by a South Korean company that made backpacks for brands including Adidas and Jansport. But on July 1, management informed the union that the factory was closing and production was being moved to China because the costs...
...cravings here. Head to Udagawa-cho, a five-minute walk from Shibuya train station. The area is crammed with LP stores, ranging from the hip-hop specialist Dance Music Record (www.dmr.co.jp) to purveyors of the unusual, such as Yellow Pop (www.yellowpop.jp) whose stocks include decades-old Japanese Rakugo (spoken-comedy records) and sporting-event pressings. ROME Goody Music is Rome's best-stocked vinyl venue. Located on Via Cesare Beccaria, the store has catered to platter fiends for over 25 years. The shop carries mainly house, hip-hop and soul, and twice a week hosts a DJ school. "Somebody walks...
...years of denying he had done anything special for Bush, he reluctantly said in a 1999 deposition that he had pushed to get Bush into the Guard at the request of a friend of the Bush family. Recently, Barnes, who has become a fund raiser for Kerry, has again spoken out about the matter, acknowledging at a Texas rally and on CBS that he had helped Bush. Bush has always denied that he or his family asked for any favors...
Copple secured his teammates’ cell phone numbers before he left Cambridge, leaving with guarantees of several futons to crash on should he visit a game weekend this fall. He has spoken with Murphy, captain Ryan Fitzpatrick, as well as members of the tightly-knit offensive line he had hoped to join, and plans to stay in touch with the team throughout the year...
...assault have always been a concern on college campuses—especially on ours. According to the Harvard University Police Department, last year there were 12 reported incidences of sexual groping and 16 reported sexual assaults. The real question, however, is how many survivors of sexual assault have not spoken...