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...many other islands in the Lesser and Greater Antilles. But less than 30 years after Columbus' three ocean-crossing ships dropped anchor off the island of Hispaniola, the Taino would be destroyed by Spanish weaponry, forced labor and European diseases. Unlike their distant cousins, the Inca, Aztecs and Maya, the Taino left no pyramids or temples--no obvious signs that they had ever existed. Just about all that remains of their culture is the handful of Taino words that survive in modern English, including barbecue, canoe, hammock, hurricane and tobacco...
Michael T. Tan '01 was elected secretary, Nicole Carbellano '02 was elected archivist, Christian Quilici '01 and Mikhaela B. Reid '02 were elected publicity chairs and Maya Bourdeau '01 was elected social chair...
...Manhattan, both Toni Morrison and Cindy Crawford were in attendance. The gathering, held at a restaurant where it's difficult to get a reservation unless you call long in advance or are a recent recipient of an MTV Video Music Award, was a starry one. Mariah Carey. Barbara Walters. Maya Angelou. They were all there. Oprah worked the room, shining attention on each guest briefly but brightly, a passing Lexus with her high beams on. The occasion was a celebration of Oprah's star turn in the new film Beloved and of her appearance on the cover of Vogue magazine...
BORN. To former co-stars and current newlyweds UMA THURMAN, 28, and ETHAN HAWKE, 27: a girl, Maya Ray; in New York City...
...contributing writer to The New York Times, Kaminer cited the fact that in the 1995-96 school year, Maya Angelou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings was the "most challenged book in the United States"--purportedly due to pornographic content...