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...Leon Ngoma Miezi Kintaudi, 56, is one physician who is bucking the trend. Born 150 miles from Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly known as Zaïre, he moved to the U.S. after finishing high school and worked his way through college and medical school in California. But while treating patients in a public-health clinic in Los Angeles, he kept thinking about Congo. He watched the country deteriorate in the 1990s as civil war took hold. On trips to visit his mother, who refused to move, Kintaudi says, "I started dreaming about doing something...
Dramadairy, the final act, took the stage well after 10 p.m., when the crowd was noticeably rowdier. It was difficult to hear lead singer and Crimson Executive Leon Neyfakh ’07 due to his raspy voice and the poor acoustics, but they made a noble effort to channel Nirvana. By the time their final set came about the crowd seemed to be losing interest in the evening. The lack of alcohol was noted by several of the concert attendees...
...head as she was sexually assaulted by offensive tackle Erik Williams and another man, unidentified, in Williams' home after the Viking game. Bad news is nothing new to the Cowboys, who have already endured the drug suspensions of Irvin, defensive end Shante Carver and defensive tackle Leon Lett last year, or to the players in question. Irvin, arrested for drug possession last spring while in a motel room with an ex-teammate and two "self-employed models," is currently in the first year of a four-year probation sentence; Williams, who was once accused of sexual assault by a teenage...
...small but determined group of demonstrators stood in the rain outside the Harvard Faculty Club Saturday afternoon to protest a conference on El Salvador at which Rene Leon, the Salvadoran ambassador to the U.S., was speaking. The sound of cars on the wet pavement of Quincy Street mingled with the chanting of the Boston branch of the national Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES). To protest the “Salvadorans in the World†convention, the small group rallied with cries of “Leon, escucha!†“Escucha?...
...video, the leaf sculpture that crumbles in the breeze. A lot of street art lasts only a few months before it succumbs to the elements, is covered over by other works or is taken away ("buffed" is the term). "I've had dogs s___ on my work," says Leon Reid, a.k.a. Darius Jones, 26, who makes tiny anthropomorphic figures out of bricks that he mostly places at ground level. "I've had people lock their bikes to pieces I've made. But I guess that's part of what this is all about...