Word: julio
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...order to back Manuel Rosales, governor of Zulia state and the leading opposition candidate in the polls. After months of intense negotiations, opposition leaders seem to understand that throwing their weight behind one man is their only prospect - however slim - at unseating the heavily-favored Chavez. Front runners Julio Borges of the Justice First party and Teodoro Petkoff, a newspaper editor and former guerilla who dropped out last week, showed their support for Rosales when he declared himself the chosen candidate on Wednesday. "We're all showing that we want to build something bigger than us," Borges said. "Governor Manuel...
...first effortless trilingual conversation, in three sentences.By all means, come to Buenos Aires. When Harvard’s intersession rolls around, it’ll be gorgeous here in the southern cone of South America. After all, this city breathes what Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar immortalized in print. Such idylls offer much more than mere hazy fantasies of cheap, hedonistic living. You just won’t find that kind of free ticket here; and in the meanwhile, you’ll be annoying the heck out of the rest of us.Grace Tiao...
Schooling accounts for the Latins' superb technique; their culture supplies the rest. A love of movement, says A.B.T. artistic director Kevin McKenzie, "is part of the daily fabric of their lives." Adds A.B.T.'s Julio Bocca, who is from Argentina: "We improvise a lot. Our kind of living is very fresh and spontaneous." And Latins are never shy about injecting a little drama. "We try harder to be actresses in the roles we dance," says Mary Carmen Catoya, a Venezuelan with Miami City Ballet, "to seduce the audience a little more, make our eyes talk a little more...
Finding their place in Tuxpan has been hard for the brothers. In America they were too Mexican. In Mexico they are too American. Julio, for example, started out wearing the baggy clothes he bought at Banana Republic and the Gap before he left the Hamptons, but he quickly found out that what passes for universal teenage fashion in the U.S. is viewed as the indelible mark of a hoodlum in Tuxpan. Even his friends greet him with "What's up, gringo?" So Julio and Carlos spend a lot of time hanging out with other kids who, like them, are Americans...
...part of their return plan, Julio and Carlos' parents have built their dream house just outside Tuxpan. It is a grand two-story affair with granite counters in the kitchen and views of the mountains from the boys' bedrooms. But cash is tight. In the U.S., Yadira had moved up from cleaning houses to working as a manicurist for an upscale spa in Bridgehampton. With tips from her wealthy clients, she made up to $200 a day. But returning to Tuxpan, she quickly found out that sustainable income is hard to come by in small-town Mexico. Yadira tried running...