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Julio Quinones and Blanca Jimenez received the Thomas J. White Prize in a ceremony in Science Center B. The prize was named in honor of White, a local philanthropist who graduated from Harvard...
...Blanca C. Alcaraz '93, a graduate student in Romance Languages and Literature, grew up outside of Delano, Calif., a town which was the focal point of Caesar Chavez's strike...
...Bryan's occasionally aimless doodlings don't always get many miles to the gallon. But he does explain (in a footnote) why the Chevy Caprice is "the unofficial freedom-mobile in the Middle East"; that cows in Arizona used to feed on cantaloupes and honeydews; and why Sierra Blanca, Texas, receives 225 wet tons of New York City sludge each day. Listening to the routinely outsize tales of ordinary Americans with an amiable deadpan worthy of Richard Ford, he suggests that distance makes the head grow fonder too. People who buy snakes in bottles of Jim Beam may, in fact...
...Supreme Court. The court's order prevents Lingle, who left his fellowship at a Singapore university and returned to the U.S. before the trial, from removing some $20,000 in savings and pension accounts unless he pays a $6,850 fine and his share of the court costs. ASSASSINATED. BLANCA JEANETTE KAWAS FERNANDEZ, 48, fervent Honduran ecologist who antagonized peasants and developers alike in pressing for effective forest management and preservation of nature parks; by an unknown gunman; while she sat in her living room in Tela. Two days before she was killed, she had led a peaceful demonstration...
Sure enough, Blanca grows up to be a rebellious Winona Ryder, and Pedro turns into a revolutionary played by Antonio Banderas (of Philadelphia) -- enemy of the privileges Esteban holds dear, progenitor (out of wedlock) of the granddaughter he holds dearer still. When the fascists stage their inevitable coup, it is, of course, the bastard Esteban begot in that long-ago dawn who turns up trying to torture Blanca into revealing Pedro's whereabouts...