Word: vianney
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...allegedly absconded from New York City earlier this month with $187,000 in cash for the country's bankrupt U.N. mission, has turned up in Paris with empty pockets -- or so he claims. Rwanda's government called for an international manhunt to catch Hutu regime holdover Jean Marie Vianney Ndagijimana; today, he told Agence France-Presse: "They're trying to bury me politically...
...only black student in his class at Savannah's St. John Vianney Minor Seminary, a Catholic boarding school, Thomas was the subject of cruel racial taunts. "Smile, Clarence, so we can see you," a white classmate yelled after lights out. In a long series of interviews with Washington Post journalist Juan Williams, Thomas acknowledged going through a period of "self-hate," during which he tried to fit in by avoiding every form of stereotypically black behavior. But his effort failed and left him with the conviction there is nothing a black can do to be accepted by whites...
Thomas' rigorous Catholic education continued at St. John Vianney Minor Seminary in Savannah, where he was the only black in the 1967 graduating class, and for a year at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Conception, Mo. Remembering his childhood as he spoke to reporters in Kennebunkport, Thomas choked up so much that he could barely get through the remarks scrawled in ink on a sheet of loose-leaf paper. "I thank all of those who have helped me along the way . . . especially my grandparents, my mother and the nuns, all of whom were adamant that I grow up to make something...