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...kind of journalism, her weapons are a tape recorder, an eye-catching figure and a vulnerable glint in her wide blue eyes. She roams the world in search of people who are not simpatico but antipatico, and she has bagged dozens-Norman Mailer, Federico Fellini, Michael Caine, Dean Martin, El Cordobes, Hugh Hefner and the Duchess of Alba, to name a few ... When Oriana's subjects read the result of the interview, they often complain that she has fabricated the quotes. She denies it. But she does take a few liberties. 'I transcribe the whole interview,' she says, 'then...
...tried various non-conventional and socialist-style solutions to the housing dilemma. Earlier this year, Caracas officials began seizing apartments considered "idle" to give shelter to those who had none. They moved 51 firefighters who needed housing into one apartment building in the upper-middle class neighborhood of El Rosal. Some residents of the building said they didn't object to their new neighbors, noting that the local government paid a fair price for the units and that people needed help allaying the financial shock of skyrocketing apartment prices...
DIED. Freddy Fender, 69, three-time Grammy winner who began his career as "El Bebop Kid," singing Elvis songs in Spanish, and in 1975 topped the pop and country charts with Before the Next Teardrop Falls; of lung cancer; in Corpus Christi, Texas. Born Baldemar Huerta to migrant parents in South Texas, he based his stage name on the brand of his guitar and later joined two critically acclaimed Tex-Mex bands, the Texas Tornados and Los Super Seven...
Cafè Tacvba (pronounced tacuba) has spent 17 years taking elements of contemporary music--from north-of-the-border punk to the indigenous sounds of Veracruz--and synthesizing them into a fluid, singular brand of rock en español. The song El Fin de la Infancia puts brassy Mexican banda music to a ska beat. Eres is a pop ballad served straight. And Chilanga Banda is a nod to funk. It makes for manic concerts. This two-disc set captures Tacvba's epic 15th-anniversary blowout in Mexico City...
...students who gained OPT status immediately after graduation would be left without a visa from June 2007 until October.Even worse for foreign students, summer jobs held during college count toward the 12-month OPT allowance. For example, Elisa M. Segovia ’06 of El Salvador worked during the summer before her senior year—cutting down the number of months she could work under the OPT program after graduation.“I called my company and told them my situation, and my company was pretty great and said that when my OPT expires, we?...