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PHOTOGRAPHY: Hector I. Osorio '89 of Winthrop House and Flushing, New York, Photography Chairman; Terry R. R. Roopnaraine '90 of Cabot House and Rome, Italy, Associate Photography Chairman; Gavin L. Villareal '90 of Winthrop House and San Antonio, Texas, Associate Photography Chairman; David K. Eldan '89 of Eliot House and Culver City, California, Assistant Photography Chairman; Eugene L. Jhong '90 of Leverett House and Manila, Phillippines, Assistant Photography Chairman; Anh T. Nguyen '90 of Lowell House and Cleveland, Ohio, Assistant Photography Chairman...
...nearly 200 doomed men who made a stand at the Alamo in San Antonio helped inspire Texans to defeat General Santa Anna's Mexican army in 1836. Today more than half of San Antonio's 1.1 million residents are Hispanic, and some are up , in arms about the way a new film depicts the famous battle. Alamo -- The Price of Freedom is to run in a giant-screened theater near the fort. Hispanic leaders claim the film demeans the role of nine Tejano (Texas-born Mexican) defenders in the siege. Also "inaccurate and uncalled for," they say, is a scene...
...Texas, the 100 top-ranked school districts spend an average of $5,500 a year per child, while the bottom 100 spend only $1,800. The results are evident in San Antonio's Edgewood district, one of the state's poorest, where 50% of students fall below the national norms in reading and writing...
...press freedom the only area where the regime of General Manuel Antonio Noriega was coming under pressure. The Panamanian strongman angrily rejected a plan to get him to hand over power to a civilian government. Drafted with U.S. backing by Jose Blandon, a trusted Noriega ally, the proposal called for the general to retire by spring and for free elections to be held in 1989. Noriega responded by having Blandon fired as Panama's consul general in New York City...
...close to donors. Last June the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct handed down unprecedented reproaches to two sitting justices. C.L. Ray was reprimanded for, among other things, attempting to get a pair of cases moved from one appellate court to another, which would have helped a San Antonio lawyer who had donated $20,000 to his campaign. Justice William Kilgarlin drew a lesser "admonishment" because two of his law clerks accepted an expenses-paid Las Vegas weekend from an attorney who had cases before the court...