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Yale University officials charge that Grammer effectively stole $61,475 in grants and loans from the school and federal government by fraudulently getting into the college. They say he forged transcripts and other documents in his application for admission as a transfer student from Cuesta Community College in San Luis Obispo, Calif...
Spanglish is a sort of code for Latinos: the speakers know Spanish, but their hybrid language reflects the American culture in which they live. Many lean to shorter, clipped phrases in place of the longer, more graceful expressions their parents used. Says Leonel de la Cuesta, an assistant professor of modern languages at Florida International University in Miami: "In the U.S., time is money, and that is showing up in Spanglish as an economy of language." Conversational examples: taipiar (type) and winshi- wiper (windshield wiper) replace escribir a maquina and limpiaparabrisas...
Paint, wine, Bering cigars were on his shopping list. He stopped first at the tobacco counter of a drugstore in McLean, Va. No Berings. He took a couple of 95? three-packs of Cuesta-Reys instead. Then looked at his watch. It was 12:45 p.m.-no time to get the paint and wine if he was going to make the basketball game at the local Boys' Club. He hurried outside and WHAM-the long arm of the law nabbed him. Shoplifting! Yes, there was the unpaid-for pack of Cuesta-Reys in his pocket. But look here, officer...
...Medicean headquarters that Press Grandee William Randolph Hearst began erecting at San Simeon in 1922, and which had grown to over 100 rooms when he left it at the outbreak of World War II. To create his dream castle, Hearst spent more than $30 million just in furnishing "La Cuesta Encantada" (the Enchanted Hill), equipped it with a private stable and zoo, a garage with 25 limousines, and staffed it with as many as 60 servants at a time...
Unhappily for Cuesta, he and his bold little band had walked right into one of Cuba's biggest states of alert since the Bay of Pigs. All around the island, armed troops and civilians alike were watching coastlines, spotter planes were poised for takeoff and Havana radio was crackling with a call to arms -as part of a new Castro effort to cook up a crisis with...