Word: hectored
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...recent afternoon, National Guard officer Hector Maisonet, who mans an entrance to the site on Church Street, showed visitors his emergency vest, signed by Tyra Banks and Jamie Lee Curtis. "People ask us if we get tired standing here all day," says Guardsman Miguel Latorre, 42. "I say, 'Yo, it's my job.'" With the last ruins of the Twin Towers removed for possible display in a future memorial, the dozens of camouflaged Guard members and police officers stationed there now serve as the attraction itself, like the guards at Buckingham Palace. Tourists take pictures with them, chat them...
Aterciopelados COLOMBIA Singer Andrea Echeverri and guitarist/producer Hector Buitrago blend alt-rock, electronica and Colombian folk. Key albums: Gozo Poderoso, Caribe Atomico...
...block stem-cell research because it kills an embryo that has the potential of becoming a human is to limit the potential to save lives and cure many devastating illnesses [NATION, July 23]. HECTOR TIMOURIAN Livermore, Calif...
Protocol issues have also been thorny. Initially Marasco concentrated on local approvals. But before mounting any project in Mexico, especially one involving the border, he learned, it's imperative to move first through federal channels. "The U.S. grants more local authority," says Hector Lutteroth, former deputy mayor of Tijuana. "Here you need a padrino, a godfather, in Mexico City to speed things along." Chris Green, Marasco's chief financial officer, says, "I've done multimillion-dollar deals completely on the phone with some companies in the U.S. before the lawyers papered it and we signed it. That would never happen...
...HECTOR BARRETO JR. Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration...