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  • All of them were called bui doi, the "dust of life," a particularly contemptuous label, one that Hung heard from Vietnamese and sometimes even from young Amerasians who were better off than he was.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • All of them were called bui doi, the "dust of life," a particularly contemptuous label, one that Hung heard from Vietnamese and sometimes even from young Amerasians who were better off than he was.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • The idea of an opportunity to recuperate the archeological vein, both in music and liturgy, of a past, from which the so called “oxen centuries” (seculi bui) of the Council of Trent separated it … .. in short an archeology which has nothing at all to do with Tradition and which wishes to restore something which maybe never existed, is a bit similar to certain churches restored in the “pseudoromantic” style of Viollet-le-Duc.

    Interview with Domenico Bartolucci 2009

  • Your latest comments are NOT meant to bring parties together, bui enhance your potential for the conserative wing (s).

    Palin urges restraint at town hall meetings 2009

  • Teenage Cancer Trust, which bui lds specialist treatment units for young cancer patients, has a desk in the London offices of Japanese investment bank Nomura, an arrangement that the charity says has been instrumental in helping it to raise £ 700,000 with Nomura over the past 18 months.

    Banks Give U.K. Charities Expertise as Well as Cash Michael Weir 2010

  • Its mission is reflected in the its architecture, a sober, three-story bui lding flooded with light, equipped with an above-average array of multimedia equipment, and bearing the inscriptions of peacemakers throughout history.

    Institute Transforms University Campus Dana Rubinstein 2010

  • He is a founding father of the World Wide Web, and he will forever leave his oversized signature on the core principles on which the Internet was bui ...

    Jeremy Abelson: Embrace for Impact: My Conversation with Craig Newmark on the "Craigslist Killer" 2009

  • Lamu town is a UNESCO world heritage site known for its preserved sense of ancient Swahili culture: the thin stone streets, the donkeys (no cars allowed), the carved wooden doors, the children in their red-checked school uniforms, and the women in black bui-bui, walking alone, with a graceful stroll, the veil up to their eyes.

    Karin Luisa: Paradise in Lamu, Kenya 2009

  • The idea of an opportunity to recuperate the archeological vein, both in music and liturgy, of a past, from which the so called “oxen centuries” seculi bui of the Council of Trent separated it ….. in short an archeology which has nothing at all to do with Tradition and which wishes to restore something which maybe never existed, is a bit similar to certain churches restored in the “pseudoromantic” style of Viollet-le-Duc.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • He is a founding father of the World Wide Web, and he will forever leave his oversized signature on the core principles on which the Internet was bui ...

    Jeremy Abelson: Embrace for Impact: My Conversation with Craig Newmark on the "Craigslist Killer" 2009

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