Word: unisonal
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...this landmark legislation has been met by anything but elation. Its original proponents see it as too weak, while some suspect the Beijing-backed government would rather it had not passed at all. "It's very shameful," says Fermi Wong, director of the minority advocacy group Hong Kong Unison. "There has been a lack of commitment throughout...
...Wong of Hong Kong Unison says that, while the new law is a step forward, the city still needs to follow through with enforcement and anti-discrimination education programs. "Hong Kong must prove that it's more than just an international money-making center," she says - and that begins with a greater appreciation for ethnic diversity. The city may imagine itself as Asia's cosmopolis, but it has yet to start acting like...
...hear graduates shaking their mortar-boarded heads in unison and maintaining that what I’ve said is painfully obvious. No one thinks they work just to work, because no one wants to believe they’ve become the embodiment of the Protestant Ethic or the Spirit of Capitalism. But the truth is that even the most laid-back socialist-leaning Catholic-Jewish Asian-Spanish-Eastern Europeans among us have internalized some of those principles. Until I gave them up last summer, that...
Sarah Vaillancourt’s name was announced, and the skaters of the Harvard women’s hockey team rose in unison as they watched their teammate walk to the podium in the banquet hall of the Radisson Hotel Duluth-Harborview in Duluth, Minn...
...risk mostly paid off. “Act I Pas de Trois,” performed by James C. Fuller ’10, Sarah C. Kenney ’08, and Claudia F. Schreier ’08, was commendable. As a trio, they danced beautifully, maintaining impressive unison during the most challenging portions, but they shone the most individually during the solo series. Schreier was charming and graceful, carefully counterbalancing the strength of her feet with softness in her arms. Besides a few missteps, Kenney too proved herself with her strong solo. Most impressive was Fuller with...