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...Maria Luisa Parra de Leroux, a teaching assistant in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures who herself emigrated from Mexico and entered bilingual education programs, says she attended a rally to protest the Unz petition...
...cheeky majas, cute and not-so-cute whores, blond angels with diaphanous wings on the walls of the Church of San Antonio de la Florida--a conspectus, you might say, of every she-creature the eye could light on. And then, of course, there was the Queen, Maria Luisa, worn shapeless by 20 pregnancies, with her teeth as bad as George Washington's and her glowing arms, of which she was so irrationally proud that she forbade other women to wear long gloves at court so their arms would be seen to be less beautiful than hers, which perhaps they...
...It’s really remarkable how excited high schools in Central and South America get about HACIA,” said Maria Luisa Romero ’04, a HACIA board member who participated in the conference when she was in high school in Panama...
...Kris Kristofferson). Based on the memoirish novel by James Jones' daughter Kaylie, this beautifully observed film is a domestic epic in miniature: of precocious kids and stern teachers, of maids and their amours, of complex friendships ended by fate's whim. In an exemplary cast the standouts are Luisa Conlon and Leelee Sobieski as the daughter at seven and 14, and Anthony Roth Costanza as her brilliantly effeminate best friend. The Merchant-Ivory attention to period detail often seems like the movie equivalent of good penmanship. But here it accrues a kind of ethical eloquence. These are people...
Instead, the soloists were ringers: BSO cellist Martha Babcock, Boston Chamber Music Society violinist Lynn Chang, and pianist Luisa Vosgerchian, Harvard music professor emerita. The soloists were, of course, quite good, especially Babcock, whose lovely tone compensated for the poverty of her themes. Chang was, if anything, a bit too thin--though this effect may well have been due to Sanders' acoustics, which make it difficult to hear at the extreme edges of each tier of seats. Vosgerchian, meanwhile, was a beatific presence, smiling and swaying joyously throughout; even what appeared to be a nasty fall...