Word: isabell
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...know at school sometimes you want to talk and start moving around," said Isabel Hilliard, age seven. "With dancing you can have fun. You can do what you feel like...
...Chilean author Isabel Allende has penned a number of novels describing, in striking detail, the horrors of former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet's regime. From hidden mass graves to public executions of dissidents, these atrocities can fill volumes. Yet Allende only refers to Pinochet as the man in sunglasses and a beret. Her reluctance to explicitly name Pinochet underscores the terrifying influence the former dictator still holds over many Chileans...
...confined to one nation, but are a worldwide threat to fundamental human rights. If attempts to re-examine Pinochet's medical condition fail, he may still face prosecution in Chile, but his conviction there would be unlikely. Although the wounds from Pinochet's regime will never completely heal, Isabel Allende and many other Chilean citizens would be able to rest a little easier knowing that justice is finally being served...
DIED. JACOBO TIMERMAN, 76, voluble Argentine journalist and activist imprisoned and tortured by military forces after the 1976 overthrow of President Isabel Peron; of a heart attack; in Buenos Aires. Timerman's 1981 best seller, Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, sparked international outrage over human-rights abuses...
...contrast, Isabel Allende's Eliza Sommers runs circles around everyone else in Daughter of Fortune. Allende, raised in Chile and currently residing in California, is probably the most widely read Latin American woman novelist ever published. She transfers a variation of this distinction to Eliza, who breaks every rule of 19th century Valparaiso society to seek her callow lover in gold-crazed California...