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Speaking through an interpreter, the two factory workers--Claudia Victoria Barrios and Dora Cristina Morales--recounted their struggles against low pay, poor hygiene and physical violence at a shirt factory in Guatemala City...

Author: By Timothy L. Warren, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Reich, Workers Decry Sweatshops | 2/23/1999 | See Source »

Sophomore jumper Dora Gyorffy is a huge favorite in the jumping events considering that she holds both triple and high jump records for the Ivy League...

Author: By Maisa A. Badawy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Track Hopes for Right Footing at Heps | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

Sophomore jumper Dora Gyorrfy captured firsts in both the high jump and triple jump. She finished at a disappointing--for her--6 feet, 1.5 inches in the high jump then broke her own school record in the triple jump with a length of 12.57 meters. Gyorrfy jumped at a level beyond the reach of her competition, with the second-place Princeton jumper...

Author: By Maisa A. Badawy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Track Overcomes Obstacles To Beat Princeton, Yale; Injuries Foil Men | 2/16/1999 | See Source »

...usual, sophomore Dora Gyorffy cruised to wins in the high jump and triple jump. Joining Gyorffy and Hanson as winners were sophomore Marna Schutte in the 400-meter and sophomore Brenda Taylor in the 55-meter hurdles...

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M., W. Track Still Undefeated After Brown-Cornell Sweep | 2/3/1999 | See Source »

...main railroad terminal, Dora, a sour old woman (uncompromisingly played by Fernanda Montenegro), scratches out a living writing letters for the illiterate. When a customer is killed in an accident, the dead woman's son (the winsomely suspicious Vinicius de Oliveira) becomes Dora's responsibility. The two set out across the Brazilian vastness to find the boy's errant father. Theirs is an odyssey of simple problems, simple emotional discoveries, a relationship full of knots that Salles permits to unwind in an unforced, unsentimental fashion. His imagery, like his storytelling, is clear, often unaffectedly lovely, and quietly, powerfully haunting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Central Station | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

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