Word: gringo
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...ARRESTED. Gregorio (Gringo) Honasan, 58, former Philippines Senator and army colonel; for his alleged involvement in a February coup attempt against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo; in Quezon City. Honasan, the Philippines' self-described "resident adviser on failed coup attempts," led unsuccessful revolts against Ferdinand Marcos and Corazon Aquino in the 1980s, escaped from a prison ship in 1988 and won a Senate seat in 1995 after being granted amnesty. Honasan, who had been in hiding since the failed coup, denied the charges...
...that he plans to write a letter to the University calling for action. “You’re telling me that one summer you can’t close down Lowell or Eliot house and spray the entire building?” he said. But Zachary M. Gringo ’99, who is Associate Director of Residential Operations for FAS, wrote in an e-mail that the Houses are not fumigated to avoid exposing any residents to pesticides. “Even when students are not in the building, we often have tutors and other House affiliates...
...traditional procession meant to bring peace and health. But now, they're using the "patron saint of the fishermen" to help prepare for something far from peaceful - a guerilla war against a U.S. invasion that President Hugo Chavez insists Washington is actively plotting. To prepare for a gringo attack, the Armed Forces and members of coastal communities recently stuffed three statues of virgins normally reserved for Catholic holidays with rifles and mortars to be used in a simulated ambush. The activity was part of a series of war games carried out here with over 3,000 troops and civilians...
...gringo migration grows, so do real estate prices. Ocean-view lots and houses in Costa Rica start at $200,000 today and range up to seven figures, says Edgar Santamara, regional director for Century 21. So retirees in Costa Rica are moving to Guatemala and Nicaragua, the latest frontier, where similar plots cost a tenth of that. But home building can move at a tropical pace: 18 months after Sadlier and Budinger bought their house, and a year after they were supposed to have moved in, they're still waiting for the builders to wrap. "Maana might mean...
...clothes he bought at Banana Republic and the Gap before he left the Hamptons, but he quickly found out that what passes for universal teenage fashion in the U.S. is viewed as the indelible mark of a hoodlum in Tuxpan. Even his friends greet him with "What's up, gringo?" So Julio and Carlos spend a lot of time hanging out with other kids who, like them, are Americans in exile. There's Flor, 15, a cousin who also grew up in the Hamptons and speaks a rapid teenage patois. There's her boyfriend Luis, also 15, a basketball-crazy...