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TRANSFERRED. THE PANAMA CANAL, 50-mile engineering feat, shipping lane and cruise-ship highlight; after 96 years of U.S. control; to Panama. At a ceremonial hand-over, Jimmy Carter, who brokered the transfer treaty in 1977, told Panama's President Mireya Moscoso, "It's yours...
...itself. While only 7% of the country's economy is dependent on the canal, nearly 100% of its self-image is wrapped up in the belief that it serves as one of the world's most important trade links. This Wednesday the country will swear in a new President, Mireya Moscoso, 53, whose overriding challenge is to try to turn a world-class location into a world-class country, technologically literate and future oriented. More ambitious Panamanians (and the country's well-educated middle class is full of them) talk of becoming the Singapore of Latin America. Doing that means...
...like it a lot," she says. "When I used to wake up in the morning, I felt like I wanted to crawl back in bed. I think it encourages kids to go to school because you always know that you're going to be on break soon." Mireya Reyes, a fifth-grader at Campestre, doesn't miss the old summer vacation either. "In one month we do everything we want," she says. "And then we come back and like school better...
...Mireya Nadal-Vicens '91, executive producerof Citystep, said that the group had interpreted"at Harvard" to mean at the Loeb, and thatorganizers were dismayed when University officialsrejected their request for the mainstage thisspring...
...Mireya Navarro, 29, a California journalist, reports that her relationship with an "Anglo from Berkeley" used to undergo social duress and some physical stress when the couple hit the dance floor. Then the merengue craze blew in from back East. "I tell him, 'All you have to do is march and move your hips,' " Navarro says. "If there's one dance that Anglos can get into, merengue is it." In New York City, merengue is footing aside other variations of Latin dance music and is busting out of the Spanish clubs into slicker venues. Mayor Edward Koch showed...