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Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Ga. was named the highest-risk college neighborhood in the U.S. with students more than 10 times more likely to be crime victims than the national average. Anna Maria College, in Paxton, Mass., was named the lowest risk...
...goes to Barcelona, hoping to find Esteban's father, whom the boy never knew. There, by chance or fate, she meets her flock: Sister Rosa (Penelope Cruz), a nun who deserves many fretful prayers, and her bitter mom (Rosa Maria Sarda); Huma Rojo (Paredes), an actress who is playing Blanche in the touring production of Streetcar that Manuela and her son had seen in Madrid; Huma's druggie lover Nina (Candela Pena); and Agrado (Antonia San Juan), a transsexual prostitute who has raised artifice to a philosophy. "You are more authentic," this dear creature says, "the more you resemble what...
Locked away from the world (and, it should be noted, the dangers of childbirth and the bubonic plague), Virginia became Sister Maria Celeste. She served the church and the man she addressed in her letters as "Most Illustrious Lord Father." Her surviving correspondence, translated and smoothly integrated by Sobel, ranges from heretical observations of the heavens to the mundane details of housekeeping...
...latter included doing laundry and mending for her father, as well as providing him with medicinal compounds. Maria Celeste was the convent's herbalist and, judging from her elegantly phrased appeals to her well-connected father, also the impoverished order's chief fund raiser. She was a shrewd manager of the convent's money and kept an eye on her father's house and vineyard. One busy...
...game's lone goal was scored by co-captain Beth Zotter, who put the ball in the net after a corner kick by junior midfielder Meredith Stewart ricocheted off Huskies goalkeeper Maria Yatrakis's hands...