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Carmen, though sung in French (with English “supertitles” projected overhead in this production), is in many ways a quintessentially Spanish opera. The tale of the seductive, gypsy-girl Carmen, her hapless lover Jose, the bullfighter Escamillo and their love triangle is imbued with a richly Castilian flavor. But the Spanish component does not overwhelm the plot and only heightens, even justifies, the melodramatic exchanges between Carmen and her lovers...
...Jose Guzman did the right thing. On a chilly night in the rock-and-sand wasteland of Canon de la Marrana on the Mexican border, he gave up an easy run into the U.S.--the border patrol wasn't in sight--to stay with a woman who had twisted her ankle as she took off north toward California. What really angers Guzman, as he waits for a Mexican rescue patrol to shuttle him to the nearest town, is having to make this illegal crossing in the first place. After working in a Los Angeles lumberyard for five years...
Councillor Henrietta B. Davis proposed a “Neighborhood Bill of Rights” modelled on those in San Jose, Calif. and Tampa, Fla. The statement would guarantee certain city services to Cambridge’s many neighborhoods under the auspices of the Committee on Neighborhoods and Long-Term Planning led by Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves...
They do have names, though, Castro’s prisoners do. Here are just a few of them: Vladimiro Roca, Julia Cecilia Delgado, Angel Moya Acosta, Nestor Rodríguez Lobaina, Rene Montes de Oca, Dr. Oscar Biscet, Jose Orlando Gonzalez Bridon. They are victims of a regime that in 2001 was rated by Freedom House as one of the most repressive in the world —worse than Libya and Syria, worse even than China. They have been arrested for “disrespect,” for “dangerousness...
...being part of any terror network. But the group isn't a monolith; radical elements appear to be ignoring the party line. "We believe that the MILF leadership means well but they cannot control their troops on the ground," said Armed Forces of the Philippines spokesman Lieut. Colonel Jose Cristino Mabanta. The U.S. is in the opposite position: its troops in the southern Philippines do follow orders. They might just have been ordered to fight the wrong guys...