Word: lias
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...people don’t have friends or family in New York.” On Thanksgiving, most businesses and restaurants in the Square were closed. The same went for Harvard’s dining halls, with the exception of Quincy House, which, according to dining checker Lia Fajardo, saw 875 people swipe in for its service of a traditional Thanksgiving dinner...
...hill on Avenida dos Bandeirantes that leads to São Paulo’s Congonhas Airport, I saw the dense black smoke, blown sideways by the wind. When I ascended the driveway, I was confused. At that moment, the burning warehouse of Transportes Aéreos Marília (TAM), Brazil’s largest airline, looked like any of a dozen building fires I had seen on the evening news. But the severed tail of a TAM Airbus 320 protruded from the warehouse, signaling that the 176 people on board were surely dead...
...Lia Fajadardo works in Quincy House dining hall and greets hundreds of students daily...
...DIED. Alfredo Stroessner, 93, canny and cruel dictator of Paraguay from 1954 to 1989 who brought relative stability and economic growth to the South American country-which had seen six Presidents toppled from 1948 to 1954-before being ousted in a 1989 coup and exiled; in Brasília. The macho general, who flashed his name in neon across the country and famously sheltered Nazis including Josef Mengele, solidified and maintained his control by rigging elections, torturing and murdering perceived enemies, and turning his country into a smuggling capital (the "price of peace," he once said). By the 1980s...
...exclusion, corruption and widespread frustration--haven't gone away. Despite the perorations of populists like Chvez and Castro, Latin America's maladies are not made in Washington but are self-inflicted wounds originating in the predatory lites that control policymaking in places like Buenos Aires, Caracas, Braslia and Mexico City. Those are problems for which Washington has never had the skills or the means to influence. On the whole, the U.S. is better off letting Latin Americans figure out how to solve Latin America's problems...