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...Miramar Fl, Pembroke Prines Charter High School
...student accepted to the Class of 2011, Cory A. Johnson of Miramar, Fla., said he waited for the e-mail from the Admissions Office in “agonizing pain...
...April 1912 alongside his 27-year-old son Harry Elkins, the Harvard graduate and book collector whose private collection helped found the library named in his memory. George’s wife Eleanor Elkins Widener—who survived the Titanic disaster—apportioned $1.5 million to completing Miramar between 1914-1915 in addition to financing the library that bears her son’s name. Eleanor, an art connoisseur and collector, furnished Miramar primarily with 18th-century French art and architecture. She used the house as her summer home and frequently held large social events at the estate...
...That issue could be moot anyway. Cuban-Americans a generation ago may have waxed romantic about their gorgeous and breezy casas in Havana neighborhoods like Miramar. But today, says Elena Freyre, head of the Cuban-American Defense League in Miami, "90% of them no longer desire to go back and live there. Their roots are too deep in the U.S. And when they go back and see the sad reality of what Cuba is now, a lot of them will be on the first flight back to Miami...
...Realism was very important to me," says Tom Cruise of his latest acting assignment. To prepare for the role of a trainee Navy jet fighter pilot in Top Gun, now filming on location at Miramar Naval Air Station near San Diego, the star of Risky Business has been tagging along with actual flyers, on the ground and in the air, in a TA-4 single-engine fighter. "The maneuvers look graceful from the ground," says the actor, "but it's amazing how violent it is inside the cockpit. You are just holding on with five Gs pulling...