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...woman who serves as a storehouse of folk wisdom - and is occasionally blessed with healing powers. It is the character of solid-like-a-rock Big Mama in Gabriel García Márquez's short story Big Mama's Funerals. It is otherworldly Ultima in Rudolfo Anaya's Chicano lit classic Bless Me, Ultima. And on the telenovelas, it is the kindly older lady who knows who the father of the orphaned deaf-mute child is but doesn't say out of propriety...
...half a percentage of winning the presidency in 2006.) The PRI's quasi-coalition with Mexico's Green Party, which grabbed 22 seats, gives it a tacit congressional majority that promises to "paralyze" Calderon's presidency if not "mark the end of his term," says syndicated political columnist Martha Anaya. A political hobbling of Calderon could hamper Washington's efforts to help the Mexican administration tackle an economic downturn and relentless drug violence, which have raised fears about the stability of one of the U.S.'s most important trading partners. (See pictures of Mexico's drug war in Culiacan...
...small-scale reenactment of move-in weekend, parents could be seen helping their offspring carry luggage, boxes, and other assorted items from a motley collection of rental cars just outside the Yard on Saturday afternoon. Another student used the weekend as an opportunity to escape campus. Cameron R. Anaya ’11, whose parents flew in from Washington, said that he and his family traveled to many different parts of Massachusetts. “My parents didn’t want to sit through all of the lectures here because of my baby sister,” Anaya said...
...student at the Harvard School of Public Health. The Fulbright program supports both American students studying and researching abroad, as well foreigners studying or researching in the U.S. The program, named after former Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright, is funded by the State Department. Carlos Olimpo Mendivil Anaya, a Colombian, said that the Fulbright program would allow him to learn technical skills that he would use for the benefit of his home country. “I am very excited about coming back and [making] some contribution to the country,” said Anaya, who studies diabetes...
...Anaya believes that his problems stem from a conservative campaign to undermine him. Says he: "Our agenda was aggressive and progressive, and anytime you shake up the status quo, you catch flak." As his term winds down, Anaya told a newspaper interviewer that "history will be nice" to his administration. Whatever the future brings, leaving the statehouse can only be a plus for Toney Anaya. --By Jacob V. Lamar Jr. Reported by Richard Woodbury/Santa...