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...doubled to $80 billion on Villalonga's watch, and in February he reaped a $17 million windfall from his options. It put him at the center of a political tempest in the run-up to Spain's elections in March. The left-wing opposition to conservative Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, a boyhood friend of Villalonga's, attacked Aznar's coziness with the Telefonica chief and the Prime Minister's tacit approval of the stock-option scheme, which the opposition characterizes as a brazen display of corporate avarice. United Left party leader Francisco Frutos branded Villalonga a bad role model...
According to Maria Cabrera, a parent from Jamaica Plain, La Pinata is a community group that centers on folk dance. It pairs Latino Harvard students with neighborhood children for tutoring and mentoring...
...Tiske's "Portrait of Mary" (1920) depicts a young woman with red braids in a yellow dress and checkered apron. The portrayal of Mary as an ordinary woman provides a stark contrast to the exalted portraits of earlier centuries, which showed Mary as saint, regal queen or grieving mother. Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, an artist living in Boston, gives a striking interpretation of the Holy Family in eight photographs of a mother and father embracing their son in turn. Only the child is visible; the parents' faces remain hidden from the camera...
...Maria was the 19-year-old friend of his youngest sister, looking for a way - any way - to leave her small village in Greece. Nick was the 37-year-old man who, more than 15 years, before had left his house, less than a mile from her own, in a crisp, clean, official military uniform. She grew up hearing stories about George and Marika's son, the boy who completed his mandatory two years of service and then left Greece to join his older brother in America. There, he moved to Chicago's Greektown, worked at a variety...
...signs of the loving relationship my parents had built when the obnoxious teenager in me - reared on the fairy-tale love stories of made-for-TV movies or the cheesy teen-romance novels my local library ordered by the series - was too busy to notice. After the accident, Maria was the first name my father could say after he pronounced his own. Hers was the first face he could recognize. Last weekend, when my older sister substituted for our mom at a speech therapy session, my father immediately asked her where her mother was. It is clear to everyone - family...