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TELEVISION Molotov Alva and His Search for the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey Cinemax; May 15, 8 p.m. E.T. The joke about Second Life is that it's for people without first ones. But during six months of "filming" in the virtual realm, Douglas Gayeton finds fellow seekers asking questions about identity, authenticity and whether anyone can create a better world. Also running on YouTube, iTunes and, yes, Second Life, this is a digital life well examined...
Whitehouse never envisioned spending her later years this way. She and her husband Alva Don raised four children. In the 1980s they lived in Montana, where he earned a good living as a long-haul truck driver for Pacific Intermountain Express. But in 1986 he was killed on the job in a highway accident attributed to faulty maintenance on his truck, as his company struggled to survive the cutthroat pricing of congressionally ordered deregulation. After her husband's death, Whitehouse knew the future would be tough, but she was confident in her economic survival. After all, the company had promised...
...Alfonso Barrantes Lingán, who headed the ticket of the United Left, an agglomeration of eight leftist and Communist parties. Voters overwhelmingly rejected the Popular Action Party of outgoing President Fernando Belaúnde Terry, whose policies have failed to alleviate Peru's worsening economic crisis. The party's candidate, Javier Alva Orlandini, won only 5.9% of the vote...
...media have done a credible job of informing the public. But when news organizations provide hijackers with international exposure, which could pressure the President into negotiating with them, it is time Congress considers the question of whether the press is aiding and a betting our enemies. Alva E. Koch Springfield...
...initiatives are the equivalent of legislative acts. The foundation teamed up with reform-minded Coloradans, who started a campaign called Make Your Vote Count and collected more than 134,000 signatures to put 36 on the ballot. Most of the financial backing has come from J. Jorge Klor de Alva, the former president of the University of Phoenix, a for-profit adult-education school. Klor de Alva, who divides his time between Brazil and California, is now CEO of Apollo International, a University of Phoenix offshoot that runs a similar university in Brazil...