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About a third of the country's 50 largest Hispanic-owned firms are located in the Miami area. "No place in the U.S. has a Latin community like Miami's. Here we are members of the power structure," boasts Telemundo TV boss Joaquin Blaya, the Chilean-born executive credited with updating and reviving Spanish- language TV in the U.S. Increasingly that power is political too: two Cuban-born Americans represent the immigrant community in Congress. And the Metro-Dade Board of County Commissioners, recently reshaped by court redistricting, now has six Hispanics, four blacks and three "Anglos...
...incompatibility between his political views and any austerity of style, Rzewski gradually adopted a quasi-19th-century romantic idiom with the intention "to establish communication [with], rather than to alienate an audience." His most famous work is a brilliant hour-long set of diverse variations for piano on a Chilean leftist anthem, "The People United Will Never Be Defeated" (1975). In the late '70s and early '80s Rzewski turned to American folk song and jazz for musical material and to environmentalism for political motivation. In 1987-88 he composed the oratorio "The Triumph of Death," based on a play...
Game 5 ended in pathos. Fischer's position became hopeless. Ten moves after he should have resigned, he moved his queen -- proud, powerful, the lion of the chessboard -- and retreated it to a corner where it cowered for protection behind three lowly pawns. As Jose Zalaquett, a top Chilean amateur player, put it, it was an almost physical retreat, a folding back into the fetal position, awaiting the final blow...
...clenched-fist salute and the pinched smile were familiar, but the performance was mere bravado. Erich Honecker, 79, once the leader of the defunct German Democratic Republic, made a small show of defiance as he walked out of the Chilean embassy in Moscow after seven months spent in asylum there. Only a small crowd of supporters were on hand as he left for Berlin, where he can expect to stand trial on 49 charges of manslaughter. The indictments stem from the deaths of East Germans trying to flee across the old inter-German border, a zone that Honecker ordered fortified...
...final assembly -- a 10-month process was completed last week. Four years from now it will be joined by the Keck II, an equally monstrous twin. By then, the European Southern Observatory hopes to have positioned the first of four 8.2-m telescopes atop a high peak in the Chilean Andes. Japanese astronomers and other groups around the world will be constructing telescopes of similar size and daring before the end of the century...