Word: cortese
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In stories such as Cortes Island, The Children Stay and Rich As Stink, women are stretched beyond the limits of convention by passion and circumstance. They are not complainers. Reticence is the pervading style of Munro's rural Ontario, where "drawbacks and adversity were not to be noticed, not to...
In Chile almost half the citizenry still revere Pinochet as a strong leader who saved the nation from economic and political collapse after his bloody U.S.-backed 1973 coup, in which leftist President Salvador Allende was killed. Since becoming a Senator, he has tried to project a more benign, grandfatherly...
Some ages are defined by their epidemics. In 1347 rats and fleas stirred up by Tatar traders cutting caravan routes through Central Asia brought bubonic plague to Sicily. In the space of four years, the Black Death killed up to 30 million people. In 1520, Cortes' army carried smallpox to...
Alternative rock's leading lights shouldn't be written off--R.E.M. and Hootie probably both have more than a few big, interesting albums left in them. It's worth remembering too that the music business is cyclic. Every few years critics proclaim that rock is dead, and then a band...
"It does seem weird that a majority of students get honors," said second-year student Bertha Cortes.