Word: leon
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...Miami Beach, a few dozen protesters, mostly pensioners who had fled Cuba after the Castro takeover on New Year's Day, 1959, protested the showing of Steven Soderbergh's bio-epic. "The Jewish community would never allow any kind of film about Hitler like this to play here," Abilio Leon, 65, told the Miami New Times. "It's the same for us." A younger man walked past the theater wearing a Che t-shirt - the iconic branding and ironic co-opting of a militant leader by the media-textile complex - but with Guevara's image crossed out and marked with...
...recreation area shootout last March seemed to pit Guatemalan trafficker, Juan Jose "Juancho" Leon Ardon, linked to the Gulf cartel, against members of the Sinaloa cartel, believed to be led by Mexican drug boss, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera. Local newspapers reported that Leon Ardon and his group had stolen a drug shipment from the Sinaloa cartel, which then allegedly sought vengeance by killing Leon Ardon and 10 of his men. The 12th victim was Arturo Damian Casanova, a Mexican national and suspected member of the Sinaloa cartel. In April, the Guatemalan police detained Mexican national Daniel "El Cachetes" Perez...
...good meet,” Crimson coach Jason Saretsky said. “A great start, and it was great to see the freshman get out those jitters in their first time in the Crimson singlet.”The freshman foursome of Lauren Leon, Magda Robak, Shannon Conway, and Kim O’Donnell took third in the women’s 4x400-meter relay, clocking in less than a second behind the BU team at 3:57.43.“We’re especially happy with how they did,” women?...
...voice early on; she was schooled in opera from the age of 13. Appearing in a tour of the musical Finian's Rainbow in her late teens, she started to lend her classical and musical-stage training to the folk repertoire around 1950. Like Harry Belafonte, Leon Bibb and Makeba, Odetta played the swanker nightclubs before the big (mostly white) folk-music surge kicked in later in the decade. Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues, the 1956 Tradition LP with definitively scalding interpretations of "Muleskinner, Easy Rider" and "God's Gonna Cut You Down," announced the arrival of a voice whose...
...Washington, D.C. hearing work with your clients imprisoned at Guantanamo? They actually testified by live video link. One of my partners examined them in Guantanamo in a large room with a camera and then the government cross-examined them from Judge Leon's courtroom in Washington. I think that may have been a first as far as I know...