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...guide at the legendary ruins of Palenque in Chiapas, Mexico, likes to tell the story. A tourist, after staring in awe at the towering pyramids, turned to the guide and said, "The buildings are beautiful, but where did all the people go?" "Of course, she was talking to a Maya," the guide says, shaking his head at the irony. "We're still here. We never left...
...emotional territory new to him. It is about a young woman named Justice (Janet Jackson) in the same setting who is doing her best to keep her options open and her hopes up. She's a hairdresser who finds psychological escape in the poetry she scribbles (actually it is Maya Angelou's work) while mourning the loss of a boyfriend gunned down in her presence in the movie's opening, and most arresting, sequence. Quite clearly, she also dreams of making a real escape from the hood...
...Douglas Wilder of Virginia will preside over the ceremony Counter said yesterday. Ashe's wife, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, will unveil the memorial with Counter, and the Rev. Andrew Young will dedicate the structure. Poet Maya Angelou, who spoke at President Clinton's inauguration, will deliver a memorial reading Counter said
Fall Council Chair Malcolm A. Heinicke '93, one of the principal authors of the amended constitution and bylaws, says the idea for the council's reevaluation committee, an internal board devised to examine the council, stemmed from the "unfortunate" election scandal involving former Vice Chair Maya G. Prabhu '94. "That was really a cue to move forward," Heinicke says...
...Less than a week after surviving an impeachment attempt. Maya G. Prabhu '94 resigns from her post as vice chair of the Undergraduate Council and assumes responsibility for the invalid results of a social committee election she conducted. Privately, she admitted to rigging the election, council members said...