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...changeover means that parents don't just switch from Latin names to English ones in a single go. Rather, says Jasso, they may pass through a three-stage process, "with bilingual names becoming popular for a while. Those are names like Hector and Daniel for boys and Sandra and Cecilia for girls...
...confirms that many such bridge names are currently enjoying an uptick. On the yearly list of 1,000 most popular names, Hector has improved from No. 193 in 1981 to 181st most popular in 2008; Daniel has gone from 12th place to 5th over the past decade; and Cecilia has similarly risen from slot No. 300 to 270. Sandra has bounced around in the top 40 for decades, but since 1990 has inched up from No. 33 to 27. (See the top 10 worst corporate name changes...
...unexpectedly won a silver medal in the 1988 Olympics. It remains the best effort by a Peruvian team in Olympic sports - in any team sport - and the achievement catapulted its members to fame. Perez del Solar is one of two members of the 1988 team currently in Congress. Captain Cecilia Tait served in the previous 2001-2006 term. She was also inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame in Massachusetts a few years back. Despite the adulation of the volleyball team, it remains the preserve of women. Peruvian men don't play volleyball...
...Cecilia G. Owen––a third-year HDS student, said that she was impressed by the OneVoice speakers even though she said that she did not agree with their method of resolving the conflict...
...ItPop in some treasured oldie like John Ford's 1956 western The Searchers (a frequent entry point for Blu-ray connoisseurs), and voilà! Instant enlightenment. As the '40s film critic Cecilia Ager said when Citizen Kane opened, "It's as though you had never seen a movie before." Colors and textures are richly, plausibly vibrant, with an astonishing depth of field; all those Fordian shots of the Plains as seen from a ranch-house door lend equal clarity to the foreground and the far horizon. Blu-ray gives a 3-D impression, as if the figures in a scene were...