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...wise and generous storyteller, Garcia unfolds her tale by cutting back and forth between the eponymous sisters and the life of their father, a distinguished scientist pledged to catalog "every one of Cuba's nearly extinct birds." Reina and her daughter plot to escape their imprisoning paradise, while Constancia's husband Heberto, aging and mild-mannered, joins a brigade that dreams of recapturing it. Born in Havana and raised in the U.S., Garcia does soaring, zesty justice to the vagaries of both malfunctioning Cuba and daydreaming South Florida...
Despite sunny skies, no more than 300 students (to be quite generous) turned out to hear God Street Wine play its $7,500 set on the MAC Quad at this year's Springfest. While the Undergraduate Council members who organized and staffed the event deserve our thanks, Springfest was on the whole yet another disappointment...
...students solicited premiums from a number of record companies to entice generous donors. One of their largest and most popular gifts, offered for $90.30, was two hours of air time with the DJ of the donor's choice...
...familiar cast of 46 political donors and suitors. As the subpoena was faxed around Washington last week, it set off a minor panic among lobbyists and fund raisers worried about who might be called to testify. But their fretting was misplaced: the name of the G.O.P.'s most generous foreign benefactor wasn't even on the list...
...fact, both the First-Year Formal and Spring Fling actually made a profit. The Victory Party cost less than $500 thanks to generous donations from corporate sponsors...