Word: vincent
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...year-old Filipina with bobbed hair enrolled in the Ravenhill Academy, a Catholic girls' school in Philadelphia, and later in the Notre Dame Convent school in New York City. Cory's four college years passed with scarcely a trace at the College of Mount St. Vincent, a small Catholic women's college in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The self-contained student occasionally entertained her classmates with Filipino dances but otherwise kept to herself, spending spare hours with an elder sister and returning home to the Philippines in the summers. Her classmates recall her only as a "shy little...
Under a blazing sun and cloudless sky, Vincent Olebogeng strolls past an ore bucket spray-painted MERRY XMAS 86. Though the temperature is 87 degreesF, Olebogeng considers the weather cool relief. Thirty minutes earlier, he was two miles underground, moving tons of dusty gray ore in the almost unbearable heat of Durban Deep, a gold mine at Roodeport, ten miles west of Johannesburg. He has worked nearly 300 days in the past year, but he will not work tomorrow. After the paymaster hands him a brown envelope containing his monthly wages of 270 rand ($122), Olebogeng is ready to travel...
...meticulously maintained house stood Selena, Olebogeng's mother. He shook her hand, kissed his sister and playfully cuffed the ears of two younger brothers. Two other brothers who also work as miners were expected at any moment. His father was still in the fields, but neighbors flocked to greet Vincent. "You don't write, and you don't send money," said his beaming mother in mock irritation. "I should be angry, but you're tired, and I'm glad you are home...
...anything else, however, Olebogeng had to give his father the present that made his year in the mines bearable: his savings of 1,010 rand ($450). "Pick a goat," he said with glee, anticipating the feast to come. Meanwhile, his brother James, 13, popped a cassette into Vincent's battery- powered stereo. The sounds of the Isilingo Soul Brothers wafted over the plain. Vincent Olebogeng was home, and Durban Deep seemed very far away...
Padihershef, the resident Egyptian mummy at MGH since 1823, has spent the last few years as a celebrity guest at the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum in Springfield as part of an exhibit celebrating the common man in ancient Egypt...