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...Caroline N. Vloka ’12, a member of the women’s varsity fencing team. They may have been suited up with what looked like a beekeeper’s helmet, a mix between a bulletproof vest and an apron, and one white glove à la Michael Jackson, but still “they were hitting pretty hard,” Vloka said. Up to four people from each house were allowed to compete, and the entire men’s and women’s varsity fencing teams showed up to support their amateur counterparts...
They're living with mom, however, inside the Women's Correctional Facility in La Paz, Bolivia. There are about 250 prisoners here - and also 100 kids. In fact, the country's lock-ups house more than 1,400 children behind electrified, fence-topped walls and below shotgun-guarded towers. Among the prisoner-mothers at the Women's Correctional Facility is Andrea Virginia Tapia, who has been behind bars for four years and is expected to be released next year. (She won't discuss her crime.) "Above all in this life, I am a mother," says Tapia...
...Years you are: La Vie Club’s new digs...
...first stop in Latin America contributed to disappointed headlines in Mexican newspapers. "Obama Opens His Arms But Makes Little Commitment," rattled out the top-selling El Universal newspaper. "Lots of Praise, No Agreements," blared El Milenio. "Only Good Wishes in Calderon and Obama's Date," said the leftist La Jornada...
...groups were responsible for violent attacks on indigenous citizens last year before January's constitutional referendum, which gave Bolivia's majority indigenous more political power but had many worried that Santa Cruz and other resource-rich eastern provinces might try to secede from the poorer highlands, where the capital, La Paz, is located. Morales himself went on a five-day hunger strike last week to get Bolivia's Congress to pass an electoral law that gives the indigenous more legislative seats...