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...Guatemala's upcoming presidential election for headlines, was especially alarming for women like Ana Escobar, a Guatemalan, and Ann Roth, an American. Last spring, armed gunmen held up Escobar in the storage room of her Guatemala City shoe store while two female accomplices stole her 6-month-old daughter Esther. Escobar, 26, is convinced the baby was put up for illegal adoption, and she came to Antigua to see if Esther was one of the infants found at Casa Quivira. "We are not animals to be bought and sold," she says, clutching Esther's photo. Meanwhile, in Chicago, Roth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleaning Up International Adoptions | 8/29/2007 | See Source »

...Lima and towns closer to the epicenter more than 12 hours after the earthquake hit. There have been more than 150 aftershocks, some measuring close to a magnitude 6 on the Richter scale. "I have not been able to reach my sister, who lives in a dangerous area," said Esther Tapia, a Lima homemaker who was heading to a shantytown on Lima's outskirts to check on relatives. "What would happen if these [earthquakes] continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Night the Andes Shook | 8/16/2007 | See Source »

...We’re very excited for where our program is going,” junior Esther Lofgren added...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEASON RECAP: Radcliffe Returns to Championship Form | 6/5/2007 | See Source »

...place performances in their respective semifinal heats. As a result, the team tallied an 11th-place finish at the championships. “If you look at [the fact] that there are twelve teams invited, it’s not where we wanted to finish,” junior Esther Lofgren said. “But this was the first NCAA competition for many of us, and we raced our hardest.” None more so than the varsity eight, as the squad posted a staggering time of 6:27.62, one of its best paces of the year...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Heavyweight Crew Finishes 11th at NCAAs | 5/29/2007 | See Source »

...night sky, stars, dawn slowly breaking, finally full daylight, as the? sound track comes alive with loud crickets, braying, mooing and breathy, muffled screams. Brilliant sunshine bathes the family's kitchen as they take morning prayer in a silence broken only by the loud ticking of the clock. Esther raises her eyes, Johan says, "Amen," and the children dive wordlessly into their cereal. After the meal, Esther leaves to shepherd the kids on errands, returning briefly to tell Johan to take some time for himself this morning. Alone, he weeps uncontrollably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Handicapping the Palme d'Or | 5/26/2007 | See Source »

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