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...first to be shot on location in California. Ruggiero, born in Michigan and educated in the Northeast, was raised in the Los Angeles area. Although not a businesswoman by training—she received her B.A. in Government in 2004—Ruggiero could use her education and hockey-bred knack for quick thinking to excel in the challenges. The sassy skater showed off her business side this spring, with the release of her autobiography “Breaking the Ice.” The book represented Ruggiero’s attempt to capitalize financially on her popularity and success...
Still, there is no proof that horses bred for speed are more injury prone. Are today's Thoroughbreds more fragile? "Absolutely not," says Widener director Dr. Corinne Sweeney. Owners do periodically outcross, bringing in new breeding partners to freshen the gene pool. But that is merely an effort to boost performance, not build a sturdier animal...
...Captain and Ofelia's weak mother, and especially the Captain and the housekeeper Mercedes (Maribel Verd?). These are two marvelous characters. She has a quiet ferocity to match her cunning, which makes her a splendid revolutionary heroine. He is the real monster of the story, with a sadism bred in him by his own soldier father, and a macho theatricality that makes him a great movie villain. López (who has played memorably creepy types in With a Friend Like Harry and Dirty Pretty Things) and Verd? (the sexy "older woman" in Y tu mamá tambi...
...Since taking office in 2003, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has pledged to tackle both Brazil's security malaise and the inexcusable social conditions that have bred the gang violence. His opponent in the upcoming October election, former Sao Paulo governor Geraldo Alckmin, has boasted the state had triumphed over organized crime. The Sao Paulo crisis is likely to shine the spotlight on both their records."You can't say the PCC want to benefit one candidate or another, but there 's no doubt that they are smart and well-informed and that they know authorities are more vulnerable...
...including Harvard-Yale. As H-Club Vice President Whitney S.F. Baxter ’07 notes, “I wasn’t really involved in what Glazer/Capp did.” The alienation of the everyday Harvardite from the goings-on within the walls of the UC bred apathy within the student body, ensuring the eventual failure of Capp’s hastily hashed proposal. Crimson Key President Nicole T. Townsend ’07 says, “The CLC never really reached out to us.” On the other hand, Riley has used social...