Word: samoans
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...American classmate from her term abroad began furiously texting and calling their Samoan acquaintances, trying to find out “who was safe, who we’d heard from, who we hadn’t heard from...
Although Leonard said she now knows that at least one of her Samoan friends is safe, she still has not heard from her host family, even as the death toll has mounted to 119—a number that could rise even higher as the search for bodies continues...
...will mark the world's first road switch since Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone changed sides in the 1970s, and one of the only instances of switching from the right to the left; virtually every other change has been the reverse. Worried about increased accidents, tens of thousands of Samoans have protested the plan. As a Samoan lawyer opposed to the switch told the Times of London, "Cars are going to crash, people are going to die, not to mention the huge expense to our small country." (Read "Zero-Emission Cars: A Battle Among Technologies...
...clear those players were pioneers. The current crop of Maori and Islander players (the sons mainly of poor Tongan and Samoan immigrants) forms a quarter of the ranks of the NRL. To put that in perspective, a group that has a 1 in 200 representation in the Australian populace has a 1 in 4 presence in the country's premier winter sports competition. It's a similar, if less striking, picture in New Zealand, where Maori and Islanders comprise 17% of the population, yet of late have made up more than half the players in the country's five provincial...
...Daniel Penese and Willie Isa, both Auckland-born to Samoan parents, are Penrith teammates in the National Youth Competition, a nursery for the NRL. "Me and Willie were always stronger than the other kids," says Penese, who'd scatter opponents with a cattle-prod-like fend. Both say they were targeted by referees and implored by parents to take it easy. Isa contends there are two distinct sides of him: the aggressive, ultra-competitive footballer and the otherwise gentle man. Young Willie would crunch his fine-boned foes, then approach them after the game to say sorry. But the smaller...