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Ezra, who was seeded second in the tournament, breezed through the opening rounds before losing in the finals to Hector Barragon of Mexico, 3-1. Harvard Coach Bill Doyle said Ezra performed impressively throughout the weekend, especially during his semifinal match against Western Ontario's Scott Stoneberg. The Lowell resident won the contest in three straight games...
Royal Miller, playing her lapdog/playboy husband Hector, is as stiff and starched as his shirt. The only time we can understand why squads of women supposedly fall in love with him occurs in a moment when he is leaping about alone on stage and snatches up an imaginary rapier in solitary swordplay, levelling it against a non-existent...
Laura A. Cooley '95 was elected vice president by the employees earning more than $100 at large. Other candidates for the position were Hector R. Rocha '94, Fran Maxime '94 and Adam M. Smith '94, Goler said...
What then is the American, this new man?" asked French immigrant Hector St. John de Crevecoeur in 1782. Two hundred ten years later, many Americans answer, "No one." America has always treated its ethnic and racial minorities abominably. The only consolation they have for being shut out of the mainstream is that they should never have wanted to join it in the first place. Happily -- what with multicultural education and bilingualism -- the very concept of a mainstream is being junked...
This sense of being both backward and culturally different from the West has haunted Russian intellectuals ever since Peter the Great (1672-1725) first tried to hector his unwilling country into the arms of European culture. During the 19th century, Slavophiles argued that the spiritual and communal culture based on Orthodoxy was superior to the materialism and rationalism of the West. Their opponents, the Westernizers, bemoaned Russia's "Asiatic" backwardness. They wanted their country to absorb as much of Western economics, politics and culture as quickly as possible...