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...gone. He is darkly handsome and strong, and his hands are callused because he works for a paving company, drives trucks, rakes asphalt. He has just got off work, and he slides into a booth at a little restaurant near his home in San Jose, Calif. For years he didn't talk about it. He couldn't. Even now it hollows him, and as his eyes turn inward and he retrieves pieces of the story, he cannot sit still. He grabs at himself, squirms, apologizes for not being able to express himself more eloquently...
...offered college tuition in return for his story, but Juan's stepfather told him no honorable man profits from another man's tragedy. And so he left, wandering from town to town and job to job until 1974, when he and his fiance Elda eloped to San Jose and started a family. It was then that Juan saw the beginnings of what he could do to honor Bobby Kennedy. He could live in his spirit. He could work hard, honor his God, take care of his family and live a life of tolerance and compassion...
According to Joshua Rubenstine, Northeast regional director of Amnesty International, the previous director Jose Ayala-Lasso's response to the Rwanda genocide had been a "disaster." More than 500,000 people died in the spring 1994 slaughter...
...first glance, the confrontation at the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose, Calif., last February seemed familiar enough. Inside, two pro-business think tanks, the Brookings Institution and the World Affairs Council of Northern California, treated the Silicon Valley elite to chicken with mango sauce and a speech by a distinguished guest. Outside, environmental activists from the Sierra Club, Rainforest Action Network and the Green Party chanted their disapproval...
...Ruggiero spoke, negotiators from the world's developed countries were working feverishly to complete the MAI by a deadline set for this month. But they will almost certainly miss that deadline, in no small part because of the kind of activism on display in San Jose. The charge that the MAI would eviscerate national environmental protections has turned a technical economic agreement into a cause celebre. And that says a lot about the way the debate over free trade has transformed the American environmental movement...