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...weekday mornings Kery Wilkie Nunez does her Falun Gong exercises with two or three commuters next to the Dunn Loring metro station in the Virginia suburbs of Washington. The buzz from the nearby highway and the bustle of the rushing crowds aren't a problem. "You become peaceful and tranquil inside," says Nunez. It's different for the three or four doctors who do their exercises from 5:30 to 7:30 a.m. near the library of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. All they hear are birds chirping. Steven Reani does his exercises in the early morning...
...rise of such laws suggests that middle-class Americans have exhausted their reserves of compassion for the homeless and now see them as responsible for their own fate. "People decided that homeless people were affecting their quality of life," says Ralph Nunez, president of the New York-based Homes for the Homeless, "and they got fed up." But how fed up? In a recent survey conducted by researchers at Wayne State University, 80% of respondents said they favored increased federal spending on the homeless, and two-thirds said they would agree to a $25 tax hike to pay for homeless...
...Santa Barbara last week, defenders of bilingualism considered their next move. A lawsuit against the school board? A general strike? A boycott of Anglo businesses? Mirna Nunez, a principal organizer of the protest, vowed, "We're going to fight this to the end!" Meanwhile, though, the boycott of the schools dissolved, and the kids made their way back to class...
...something else that I find challenging and interesting." Last Friday, Hillary and her entourage hiked a slick, muddy trail outside the remote Panamanian village of Chica, where a dozen peasant women were waiting at their nursery of guavas, peppermint and poinsettias. On a dilapidated bamboo bench, Faustina Nunez told the First Lady in Spanish of the dream they had also harvested from the soil. "Our community could see we were a society of strong-willed women, and we were not going to step backward," Nunez said. For Hillary and her generation, that is a yearning that needs no translation...
...apiaries than we really need to know. And are left wondering if some dynamics in the direction, some perversity in the development of characters, some surprises in the story--qualities that animated Lone Star, which so richly filled this slot last summer--would constitute that much of a sellout. Nunez's film neither floats like a butterfly nor stings like a bee. It just drones...