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...Pero le va mejor que eso. Saralegui, que lleg? de Cuba a los 12 a?os, ahora dirige un imperio. Como Oprah Winfrey, a quien a menudo se le compara, Saralegui, de 57 a?os, se ha convertido en una marca que incluye Cristina La Revista, la cual fund? en 1991; su show de charla que ha ganado 11 Emmys y tiene 100 millones de televidentes en el mundo; un estudio de televisi?n en Miami; Casa Cristina, una l?nea de muebles; una pr?xima l?nea de moda; y una creciente carrera art?stica que incluye una reciente presentaci?n en el show de George L?pez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cristina Saralegui | 8/15/2005 | See Source »

...think what is happening is more explicit occasions where someone is speaking out...It's important to stand up and say we do not agree," said Professor of English and Compara- tive Literature Barbara E. Johnson, who "came out" at last year's Peninsula protest...

Author: By Melissa Lee and Anna D. Wilde, S | Title: Gay Faculty Become Activists | 4/23/1993 | See Source »

Culled mostly from Harvard's three art museums, the Museum of Compara- ative Zoology and the John F. Kennedy Institute, the potpourri includes three priceless glass flowers that have not left Harvard since 1892, an 80-in. stuffed sailfish, a water pump bought by the university after a disastrous fire in 1764 and assorted Crimson football banners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Thank You from Harvard | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

Juan Peron, Argentina's onetime strongman, has said repeatedly that he would return to his homeland "when the people tell me the bollo [roll] is ready for the oven." Apparently the bollo is now ready. In Buenos Aires, Peron's top aide, Hector Compara, announced that el Lider would arrive in Argentina on Nov. 17, thus ending 17 years of exile abroad, most of it spent in princely isolation in Madrid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: El Lider Returns | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

...Pantino label. Jantzen and Catalina swimsuits-also stripped of labels-sell for 10% to 15% off regular retail prices, but the choice is limited. For the most part, Ferkauf relies on private-label soft goods put out for him by big-brand manufacturers. Korvette's calls them "compara-bles"; they include such items as Kayser-Roth "Nolde" nylons at $2.55 for three pairs, v. $4.05 for Kayser's better known "Kayser" hose, and Kentshire sheets by Pacific at $2.57 apiece, v. $3.49 for regular Pacific sheets. Though his competitors sneer that some of Ferkauf's "comparables" look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: Everybody Loves a Bargain | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

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