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...change. Ehrenreich fights on the political level, trying to force people to change. We conservative Christians have been struggling for the past 2,000 years and have a lot of experience combating the injustices of this world. We really aren't Ehrenreich's enemies, after all. STEVE DRESSELHAUS La Paz, Mexico...
...adolescent, Allende spent time in La Paz and Beirut with her mother and diplomat stepfather. She returned to Chile at 15, married an Anglo-Chilean engineer at 20 and worked as a journalist on women's and children's magazines. After her cousin's overthrow, she became caught up in the resistance to the dictatorship and was forced into a financially pinched and emotionally isolated exile in Venezuela. Eventually her marriage fell apart, just as her literary career took off. In 1988, on a book tour in California, she fell in love "at first sight" with, and married, an American...
After a hard day's acting, some Hollywood screen sirens like to unwind with a good book of Latin American poetry. At least Sharon Stone does. The actress is such a big fan of Octavio Paz's work, she offered to fly the Mexican poet -- in Atlanta for a gathering of Nobel Prize laureates -- to Savannah, Georgia, near where she's filming Last Dance with Rob Morrow, for lunch and a discussion of verse. After the poet's wife explained to him who Stone was, Paz told the Washington Post he was "amazed and delighted" that she knew...
Ambrosio Quintero, a retired factory worker married to an American, told Paz / Soldan that when he approached a Latino employee of a large Pasadena auto shop Thursday, he was told that employees were forbidden to speak Spanish with customers since 187 passed. Assistant manager Sam Gonzalez of Fedco Tire Center said the store recently declared that employees were not to speak to one another in a foreign language but that the rule does not apply to customers...
...Woodland Hills nurse was pelted with rocks and anti-Hispanic epithets at a high school she has walked by for 10 years without incident. "She was crying so hard, I couldn't get her off the phone for 20 minutes," said Paz Soldan. "She kept saying, 'This is my dream -- the land of liberty...