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...embarked for Kuwait on board the U.S.S. Rushmore in early January. The last time he wrote to his foster mother he complained he couldn?t keep the sand out of his tent or food. Less than a month later he was dead...
...mile journey north, through Mexico on foot and by hitchhking rides and catching freight trains until he reached California. He promised Engracia that he would find a way to bring her up north to join him one day. Says Lillian Cardenas, who would become his foster sister in the United States: ?He had nothing, no money, just the will for a better life...
...After winning asylum, Guti?rrez shuffled between foster homes and was eventually placed with Marcelo and Nora Mosquera, themselves immigrants from Latin America. The Mosqueras, who have three biological children of their own, have raised 30 foster children. And so the Guatemalan orphan who had barely a family suddenly had a tribe of foster siblings. Still, he never forgot Engracia and the hardships she continued to live with in Guatemala. He would send her $20 or $30 whenever he could. Guti?rrez went to high school and community college, and dreamed of being an architect. But, on the advice of a foster...
...says that he has also been especially impressed by the students at the Kennedy School of Government responsible for organizing “Bridge-Builders: 21st Century International Leadership Development,” a series of four events that will be held around the world to foster connections linking the business community to existing efforts to fight the AIDS epidemic. The first of these conferences was held at Harvard last month...
...with listings for events, opportunities and great deals—and as casual discussion groups where a range of pertinent topics, from great classes to the impending war in Iraq, from recent movies to black history, may be discussed. Most lists already serve both functions and constructively foster acquaintances between list members, alert members to House events raise awareness of current affairs...