Word: stan
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...sort of the direction that I want the UC to move in,” Anene says, calling De Beausset’s activist approach “less bureaucratic.”De Beausset, who is also a Crimson editorial editor, spent last year in Guatemala after Hurricane Stan ravaged his home country. During his time off, he started a project to aid Guatemalans farming shrimp and embarked on a journey mirroring that taken by migrant workers from Guatemala.On the campaign trail De Beausset appears soft-spoken and humble, quicker to play up Anene’s accomplishments than...
...Director for the Students Taking on Poverty (STOP) Campaign, which he helped start. All of this is to say nothing of his own personal sacrifice and commitment to change, demonstrated last year as he left the United States to return to Guatemala to provide relief for Hurricane Stan, found a development project, and document the heart-wrenching and harrowing experiences of Latin American immigrants...
...standards and for her long struggle with drug addiction, for which she served jail time; in Los Angeles. Born Anita Colton (O'Day was pig Latin for dough--"what I hoped to make," she said), she brought early hits to bandleaders Gene Krupa (Let Me Off Uptown) and Stan Kenton (And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine) and cemented her hipster reputation by performing in low-key jackets and skirts instead of gowns. Of her career--highlighted by signatures Sweet Georgia Brown and Honeysuckle Rose and a stunning performance at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival--she said, "When I'm singing...
...standards and for her long struggle with drug addiction, for which she served jail time; in Los Angeles. Born Anita Colton (O'Day was pig Latin for dough-"what I hoped to make," she said), she brought early hits to bandleaders Gene Krupa (Let Me Off Uptown) and Stan Kenton (And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine) and cemented her hipster reputation by performing in low-key jackets and skirts instead of gowns. Of her career-highlighted by signatures Sweet Georgia Brown and Honeysuckle Rose and a stunning performance at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival-she said, "When I'm singing...
Still, pulling together is not something Democrats do well--even in victory. As the Pelosi-Hoyer-Murtha battle was heating up, Democratic consultant James Carville and pollster Stan Greenberg--both of whom are close to the Clintons--loudly called on Howard Dean to resign as Democratic chairman, saying the party could have won more House seats if he had spent its money more wisely. Liberal bloggers were slamming Emanuel, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, saying he was taking credit for their victories. And the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of the most conservative House Democrats, was mounting...