Word: mariela
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Conducting multiple careers simultaneously takes an awful lot of energy. Good thing that Mariela Dabbah, 42, has enough to power her native city of Buenos Aires. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1988, she landed a job at a Westchester, N.Y., company that distributes bilingual textbooks. Dabbah bought the distributor in 1993 and sold it in 2000. By then she had started a company that translated business documents. A teaching stint at a community college awakened her to a need among Latinos for help navigating the U.S. educational and employment systems. She published a guide for Latino job seekers...
...plus three?" and "Do you like to draw?", he finally got his audience warmed up and eased them on to the heavier topic of truth, lies and secrets. "When is it not better to tell the truth?" Phillips asked his now rapt audience. "When is it good to lie?" Mariela, 10, who has severe asthma, replied, "When you're trying to help somebody escape from something like slavery...
...reunion. Elian's grandmothers--his abuelas--spent 90 minutes last Wednesday chatting with and hugging their six-year-old grandson. But they might as well have grabbed one of his arms and not let go: this family gathering was a diplomatic tug-of-war. When it ended, the abuelas, Mariela Quintana and Raquel Rodriguez, said Elian had seemed a "completely different boy." The meeting hardened their resolve to take him home. "I feel angry and impotent," a tearful Rodriguez told TIME. "What is happening is inhuman." But Elian's Miami clan had its own spin. Marisleysis Gonzalez, 21, a cousin...
Rodriguez and paternal grandmother Mariela Quintana were initially reluctant to make the trip if they could not be promised that they would return with their grandson, but were convinced to come to the U.S. by the National Council of Churches, an organization that favors normalization of relations between Washington and Havana. The grandmothers' presence is unlikely to have an impact on the legal proceedings, and it's not even clear how or whether they'll see Elian. But even if they can't help Reno make her case for the boy to be reunited with his immediate family in court...