Word: nestor
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Juarez, once a dusty border mountain pass, is now Mexico's fourth largest city, with a population of 1.3 million and 50,000 more arriving each year. Huge clusters of tiny workers' houses rise out of the sand and stretch in every direction. "It's instant urbanization," says Nestor Valencia, who directed El Paso's city planning for 11 years. "One year it's a desert. The next it's a city...
...Hispanic character is more complicated than it is for African or Asian Americans, whose physical characteristics help distinguish them. Light-skinned Hispanic actors can end up like Jewish actors have--relegated to playing other ethnicities. Arguably the most visibly Latino character announced last week was campy superhero Bat Manuel (Nestor Carbonell) on Fox's The Tick. On NBC's UC: Undercover, Jon Seda plays a cop named Jake Shaw; on NBC's Crossing Jordan, Miguel Ferrer is Dr. Garrett Macy...
...inductees, all members of the Class of 2001, are Lisa B. Keyfetz of Adams House; Ashley L. Filip, Charles C. H. Lin and Nestor D.C. Tomycz of Cabot House; Lilian I. Childress, Aarup A. Kubal, Anup A. Kubal, Peter K. Park, Sarah E.M. Wood and Ellen Yeh of Currier House; Ellen J. Guldi of Dudley House; Anne L. Berry, Brian T. Shaffer and Benjamin R. Sloop of Dunster House; Eileen K. Bent, Seth D. Familian, Eric Fleisig-Greene, Emir Kamenica, Roman Martinez and Jamie R. Vance of Eliot House; Claire E. Farley, Kevin C. Gold, Robert F. Luo and Sarah...