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...most the climb is frustrating but ultimately successful. Antonio Cube, 49, a Filipino attorney, immigrated with his wife and two children in 1970. Accustomed to the services of three maids and a driver at home, but unqualified to practice law in the U.S., Cube found work instead as a computer encoder in a bank. "I almost went home," he says now. "But the bank sent me to technical schools and moved me up little by little. For five years my wife and I worked two full-time jobs." Today Cube is a supervisor for Seattle's Rainier Bank and owns...
Among the area's clothing manufacturers is Antonio Acosta, 40, owner of Tony and Toni Fashions in nearby Hialeah. It makes sportswear and has annual revenues of about $500,000. Acosta, who left Cuba for the U.S. at 16, headed for the garment district, one of the few sources of jobs for Cuban newcomers. Says he: "When I came to Miami in 1960, I didn't speak any English. I had no money and no job. I started as a sweeper, cleaning the factory." After mastering various industry skills, Acosta sank his savings into a garment- cutting service...
...testimony, the justices ruled, violated the defendants' constitutional protections against self-incrimination. If allowed to stand, the decision would deal a fatal blow to the prosecution. To many it was seen as leading to Ver's acquittal. Ver's lawyer, Antonio Coronel, said that he intends to move for dismissal of the charges, declaring that "you don't defend yourself against nothing." A possible appeal by the prosecution is under study...
...major younger expressionist artist, like Germany's Anselm Kiefer or England's Frank Auerbach. Though it has some gifted realist painters, notably William Bailey and Neil Welliver, none can be said to compare, in point of intensity and unsparing intelligence, with England's Lucien Freud or Spain's Antonio Lopez Garcia...
...gravediggers began loosening the solid red clay with pickaxes and then started shoveling. Almost an hour later, their tools struck against the light- colored wood of a coffin. The diggers broke open the casket and, as the crowd jockeyed for position, began handing the contents up to Jose Antonio de Mello, assistant director of the Sao Paulo police forensic team. There emerged some dentures and a few earth-stained bones, some still covered by a pair of rotting trousers. And as journalists scribbled and photographers clicked, De Mello, like some macabre Hamlet, held up a skull...