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That, however, is paper thin. According to Flor de Maria, an official at the national Ministry of Health and former comandante, women haven't been rewarded adequately for their participation in the revolution. Although women hold prominent political positions--including "Comandante Dos" Dora Teja Tellez (head of political direction in Managua), and others such as head prosecutor of Somocist trials, the political secretary of the FSLN in Leon, and the National Secretary of Foreign Relations--of the 46 representatives on the National Council of State, less than 25 per cent are women. And the five-person ruling junta...
...genteel, are an unlikely pair to wash up on the wilder shores of love. Grace and Caro Bell are sisters, beautiful and well-bred, with neither property nor prospects. Orphaned young in their native Australia, they emigrate to England in their early 20s, accompanied by their half-sister Dora, who is both incubus and guardian. To the touch, the girls' surface is all coolness; the heat seems to have been drawn out of them during their struggle against Dora's ravenous self-love...
...bawdry to tragedy, coupled with a rhetorical intensity of metaphor and a great depth of experience. After Guernica he could still paint very well: L'Aubade, in 1942, with its stark intimations of confinement and oppression, seems to distill the mood of occupied France. Some of his portraits of Dora Maar, Marie-Thérèse's successor as his mistress, are of ravishing and edgy beauty...
Easily the most lopsided match in history since Germany invaded Poland, Brown devastated UPenn, 8-0. After jumping ahead to a 3-0 lead at halftime, the Bruins turned it on at the start of the second period. Bruin senior Dora Herrera led the slaughter by registering a hat trick in less than seven minutes...
Another victim, apparently, was Dora Bloch, the Israeli grandmother who arrived at Entebbe airport on board a skyjacked Air France plane in 1976, was taken to a hospital for medical treatment, removed and never seen again. As Kisuule-Minge tells it, she was brought from the hospital to the SRB. There, Farouk made a slashing motion across his throat as she was flung to the floor. She was driven away, sobbing, to a nearby forest, where she was shot in the back. One victim, a Makerere University warden named Theresa Nanziri, was eight months pregnant when she was brought...