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...very blond, very snooty to those of darker hue. She's downright rude to José Carlos' closest comrades: his Afro-Cuban bandmate, Fernando (Chimi Monterrey), and the band's sexy, dusky lead dancer, Isabel (Chela Castro), who clearly has a crush on the oblivious José Carlos. "You lower yourself dancing with that mulatta," Ana Luisa sneers, to which her color-blind beau replies, "It was God's decision that she's of mixed race." Ana Luisa also thinks that his performing in blackface is demeaning, but he shrugs that off with a laugh: "You're very lucky...
...Pike. The keeper posted his career high in saves with 16, including five in the first quarter to keep the Crimson in range.“He has been playing really well all year, and our defense is finally getting better around him, so the games have been lower-scoring,” Mahler said. “He really kept us in the game for a long time. 9-3 is misleading—[without] 16 saves, the game really could have gotten out of control.”In the second frame, things just got worse. Princeton lost...
...private lenders have held on to nearly 80% of the market by improving service and offering discounts for such things as on-time repayment. Knowing that many students choose the first entry on a school's list of "preferred lenders," lots of colleges have used these lists to get lower rates for more borrowers, and some lenders have tacked on revenue-sharing deals. "We believed it made good sense to use money that would otherwise go into Citibank's pockets to give more financial aid to N.Y.U. students," New York University spokesman John Beckman said in a statement. His school...
...long as it is technically achievable, eradication offers both lower cumulative costs and cases than control in the long term, even with the costs of achieving eradication exceeding several billion dollars more,” Associate Professor of Risk Analysis and Decision Science Kimberly Thompson, one of the study’s authors, said a statement...
...Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled yesterday to uphold the decision of a lower-court judge to grant a retrial in the high-profile case of Alexander Pring-Wilson, a former Harvard graduate student who was convicted in 2004 of fatally stabbing a Cambridge teenager...