Word: obispo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University officials charge that Grammer effectively stole $61,475 in grants and loans from the school and federal government by fraudulently getting into the college. They say he forged transcripts and other documents in his application for admission as a transfer student from Cuesta Community College in San Luis Obispo, Calif...
...late in Old Havana, and Calle Obispo is shrouded in darkness as Jorge, who fears giving his real name, walks down the narrow street. Once a fashionable shopping avenue, Obispo is now lined with decayed buildings. Jorge passes a tourist store, where three young Cubans are staring at a window display of souvenirs that would cost them the equivalent of several months' salary. At the corner, a young man whispers, "Pizza, pizza," hoping to attract customers to an illegal private restaurant. At 20 pesos, the price of a pie equals what Jorge earns in two days. Light spills...
...garden bar. Sipping on a fine, aged rum -- a rare treat -- he pours out the familiar Cuban litany of despair. He eats no breakfast or lunch and cannot find milk for his 10-year-old daughter. His car has no gas, his home no electricity. When he walks down Obispo at night, even the cheap tourist souvenirs tantalize him. He sips more rum. "People drink here to an extent you can't imagine," he says. "They don't go to work anymore. There is no hope. We talk about food shortages, clothes shortages, but it's our spirit that...
...Occidental in the first round, 18-1, and beat Cal-Poly in the second, 8-7, but then fell hard to heavies UC-San Diego, 15-4, and Pomona, 11-5. Dropped to the loser's bracket, the team finished the tournament with two convincing wins over San Luis Obispo and Occidental...
...resolved as a realm of simultaneity. It is the state people dismiss as having "no history," and yet it is strewn with old missions from the Spanish occupancy. It is the state where the place names on highway maps speak of a mythic Catholic past (San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo) and a bland suburban present (Riverside, Pleasant Hill...