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...SHIRLEY BACA (D) District 2 (South--Little Texas; Las Cruces; Roswell...
...cool with the "babies" and thinking they're classy when ordering pricey Scotch--something with "Glen" in its name. They bop to the knowing bounce of Louis Jordan, Bobby Darin, Basie and Bennett and the Big Bad Voodoo Daddy band, and check out Sinatra Night at the Lava Lounge. Las Vegas is Lourdes to them; they drive there in the hope that some casino boss will think they are "money" (it's used as an adjective meaning radiating success) and offer to put them up in "the Rain Man suite...
...touring the U.S. with a show called Le Cirque Reinvente. The Cirque style--circus acts (no animals, just humans) with the gloss of stage magic and a mysterioso musical score--is no longer an automatic astonishment; form has congealed into formula. Putting one of its extravaganzas, Mystere, in a Las Vegas casino and planning new shows in Vegas and Walt Disney World are moves that rob Cirque of its old street-theater purity. Then there are all the mimes: twee kitsch for which no enterprise can be forgiven. So with its fifth international touring show, Quidam...
Much of the information on Columbus' brutality was recorded by Bartoleme de las Cases, a Spanish priest who witnessed the conquest firsthand. He wrote that the Spanish "thought nothing of knifing Indians by tens and twenties and of cutting slices off them to test the sharpness of their blades." He recorded a story of two Spaniards who met two Arawak boys carrying parrots; the parrots were seized and the boys were beheaded "for fun." He also wrote: "[O]ur work was to exasperate, ravaage, kill, mangle and destroy...[Columbus] was so anxious to please the King that he committed irreparable...
...erased from our calenders anytime soon. But perhaps we should reflect on some of his forgotten victims this Monday. A good source for more information is A People's History of the United States, written by Howard Zinn, which provided the basis for this synopsis of Columbus' cruelty. Las Casas' History of the Indies provides a primary account. If we are to be educated citizens, we cannot passively accept the whitewashed myths of our society...