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...most inmates, prison is a spartan experience. But not for Mexican drug baron Oliverio Chavez Araujo, 33, who has been linked to Colombia's Medellin drug cartel and has been incarcerated since 1986 at the state prison in Matamoros. After members of a rival drug gang shot Chavez in the jaw and nearly blinded him three weeks ago, his bodyguards staged a violent takeover of the prison; 18 people died. Once in control of the complex, Chavez continued to make drug deals from his cell, which was outfitted with cellular phones and a fax machine. Though state police ringed...
Students who waited a long time to apply found to their dismay that work-study grants had run out. Eric M. Chavez '93, who said he originally planned to stay at Harvard this summer and work in a lab with the help of a work-study grant, was forced to take a job at home because he applied after all the grants were allocated...
...move that stirred outrage among patriotic philatelists, the U.S. Postal Service disclosed last week that two issues from the series will be printed in Canada. This marks the first time U.S. postage will be printed abroad. One stamp bears the likeness of the late New Mexico Senator Dennis Chavez. The other depicts former Chief Justice Earl Warren...
...large, music tastes are fairly sedate. Since the fighting started, says program director Sergeant Major Bob Nelson, "it's like someone put a pillow on it; we got a lot of requests for soft and sentimental songs. When it heats up, we slow down." Army Private Brian Chavez, 18, of Wagner, Okla., worries about being out of touch. "There will be all new music when we go back," he moans. "There'll be a new way of dancing. We will look like dorks, like we are dancing the Watusi or something...
...group's leaders said they formed the organization in response to a speech by labor leader Cesar Chavez last year at the Kennedy School of Government. Chavez, a leader of the UFW campaign, urged students in that speech to spread the grape boycott to Harvard...