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...with less than seven minutes to play, the Warriors finished the kill. Substitute forward Shawn Cassella--given six inches in height, a dead ringer for U.S. international defender Fernando Clavijo--caught the Crimson too far forward just as Kohler had beaten Hartwick earlier, getting by Harvard's defense and finishing past substitute keeper Ben Weeden...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: M. Soccer Falls to Hartwick | 10/27/1994 | See Source »

...emigres are even preparing to sell their property and return to their homeland. To Miami Herald columnist Sergio Lopez-Miro, such actions constitute "wishful thinking cum madness." Or call it hope -- the same hope that people like the Fidelista in Santiago have been searching for in the dark. Uva Clavijo, a Miami-based fiction writer who came to the U.S. in 1959 at the age of 15, has decided she will return to Cuba if Castro falls, and she believes it will be soon. "History has accelerated, and he can't go against history," she says. "Communism is crumbling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba Fidel's Race Against Time | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...rarity these days-three generations under one roof. They share a modest, four-bedroom house in Westchester, a mostly Cuban town in the western part of Dade County: Carlos Marquez Sterling, 83, and his wife Waldina Hernández Cata, 66; Daughter Uva, 37, and her husband Jorge J. Clavijo, 45; and their two children, Uvi, 17, and Christina, 12. As has been true of other Cuban families with several generations living in South Florida, some members of the Marquez Sterling dynasty have found adjusting to the American way of life difficult. Admits Uva: "We have encountered all the problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bridging the Cultural Gap | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

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