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...Many people continue to live in fear of being deported," said Elena Letona, director of Centro Presente...
...Azkaban (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Press; 435 pages; $19.95) finally went on sale in the U.S., exactly two months after its publication in Britain. Those U.S. readers who had not managed to obtain a copy of the British edition, chiefly through Internet orders, swamped bookstores nationwide. From El Centro, Calif., to Littleton, N.H., many stores opened for business at 12 a.m.; others offered customers tea and crumpets or steep initial discounts. Barbara Babbit Kaufman, president and founder of the Chapter 11 bookstore chain in Atlanta, reports selling more Harry Potter books in the first three hours of business than...
...home page of the Turin fire brigade (which saved the relic during a fire last April). It can be discussed at the Centre International d'Etudes sur le Linceul de Turin in Paris, the Collegamento pro Sindone in Rome (sindon is the Latin word for shroud), Valencia's Centro Espanol de Sindonologia or with the members of variously titled organizations in England and the U.S., whose members happily refer to themselves as "shroudies." It finds its adherents among everyday Catholics and among the exalted as well: during an in-flight press conference in 1989 on his way to Madagascar, when...
...crowd of 200 demonstrators spat on concertgoers as they tried to enter the theater. Three months later, a few days before singer Rosita Fornes, 74, was scheduled to perform at a popular night spot, someone threw a Molotov cocktail through the window. The concerts were canceled, and the restaurant, Centro Vasco, a Miami institution, was shut down. "They feel like they are in a situation of war," says Miguel Gonzalez Pando, a Cuba researcher at Florida International University, "so any dissent is tantamount to treason." In the U.S., so is denying a person the right to free speech...
Eight children from the Central Square based Latin American community agency Centro Precente carried colorful hand-painted murals...