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...Clara Y. Jones ’77, a close friend and college roommate, recalls that Okonjo-Iweala would sometimes feel homesick and cook African food on a hot plate in the room they shared, first in Thayer their sophomore year, and then in Dunster House during her junior and senior years...
...fall of 2007 that the VEBA trusts would protect the health care of retirees and eligible dependents for the next 80 years. However, that always depended on the health of the company. The promise is now suspect, says Stephen Diamond, an associate professor of law at Santa Clara University in California who has studied the auto-industry VEBAs. Last summer, the UAW allowed GM to defer a $1.7 billion payment to the trust. The company's next scheduled payment of $4 billion is due in December...
...Mexican bureaucrats keep asking for bribes. And he's not sure how his wife would even adjust--she's too communist, he says, laughing. She would miss her friends and co-workers in Cuba too much. For her part, she told me when I visited her in Santa Clara that she always knew it would be this way: marrying a Cuban musician is like marrying a soldier or a doctor, she said. They're always on call; they're always overseas...
Late in my travels, I was on a rural highway on the way to Santa Clara, crammed in the backseat with Oscar, his wife Yusimi and their radiant daughter Zenia, 5. We'd been out late dancing a few nights earlier, and Yusimi was giving me a postmortem on my performance. (Her bemused verdict: "You have Caribbean feet, but I have no idea what your butt is doing.") Just then, "La Jinetera" by the staunchly anti-Castro Miami singer Willy Chirino came through the speakers. It must have been the driver's CD--the song would never have been allowed...
...range toppled trees and buildings around Fort Tejon - a mountainside Army base - in 1857. As severe as the quake was, the state was so sparsely populated at the time that only two people died. The Santa Cruz Mountains and surrounding areas - San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz - took a 6.5-magnitude shock on Oct. 8, 1865. Mark Twain witnessed the event and wrote about it in his memoir, Roughing It: "[T]he ground seemed to roll under me in waves, interrupted by a violent joggling up and down, and there was a heavy grinding noise...