Word: elena
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That's the point, says Elena Freyre, executive director of the Cuban Committee for Democracy in Miami. "The next leader of Cuba will be from Cuba, not Miami," she says. "There are people there we need to start reaching out to." Freyre concedes that trading with Castro, now 73, could prop him up in the short run. More important, she insists, is ensuring that his successor is market- and democracy-minded. And since Castro blames the embargo for worsening Cuba's moribund economy--a cover for his own socialist blunders and human-rights abuses--why not take away his alibi...
...actors are not the only veterans of Harvard theater. Despite its cast of familiar Harvard names, this is not a Harvard production. This summer's performance of The Compleat Works was staged by Summer Stages, a company established by the cast and crew. Co-directors Jerald Korn and Elena DeCoste said that when they realized how many experienced actors, directors, producers, and crew members were staying in Cambridge for the summer, they decided it would be worth the risk to establish Summer Stages and present this play. Thus, The Compleat Works is a fully professional production, and deserves accolades...
Marital boredom gets a sly look in Julia Slavin's The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club (Henry Holt; 194 pages; $22) and Elena Lappin's fine collection, Foreign Brides (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 208 pages; $22). In My Date with Satan (Scribner; 223 pages; $22), author Stacey Richter covers female rivalry and the gender wars in a manner that indicates she may be in possession of one of the more outlandishly imaginative minds in contemporary fiction. Richter's book, just out, is being actively promoted by Barnes & Noble and has already far exceeded the retailer...
...actors are not the only veterans of Harvard theater. Despite its cast of familiar Harvard names, this is not a Harvard production. This summer's performance of The Compleat Works was staged by Summer Stages, a company established by the cast and crew. Co-directors Jerald Korn and Elena DeCoste said that when they realized how many experienced actors, directors, producers, and crew members were staying in Cambridge for the summer, they decided it would be worth the risk to establish Summer Stages and present this play. Thus, The Compleat Works is a fully professional production, and deserves accolades...
When it's happening: June 20 at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, D.C. Schoenberger will be holding a small white satin Bible that the brides of her family have carried for four generations. The processional music will be the same as the music at her parents' wedding. Her sister, Elena S. Schoenberger '02, also a Crimson editor, is the maid of honor. His sister, Rachel M. Zimmerman, is a bridesmaid...