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...telephone never stops ringing in the shabby downtown office of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. "At what hospital did this happen?" David Paz Soldan, a 26-year-old lawyer, is patiently asking the Spanish-speaking caller. A moment later he is fielding another complaint: "You say police confiscated your car because you did not have a green card...
Stone peppered his lecture with quotes from both Nobel laureate Octavio Paz and Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder to support his premise that society is in the grips of a controlling media...
...intense by Japanese standards, tinged with pessimism and despair. After 1963, when his first son was born brain damaged, Oe's work became even more personal; a helpless or deformed child figure recurs, suggesting both implacable fate and the possibility of redemption. Compared with the four previous laureates -- Octavio Paz, Nadine Gordimer, Derek Walcott and Toni Morrison -- Oe is little known but, thanks to the Swedish Academy, not for long...
...every right to feel superior. Any old dilettante could see that they played better, with more control, even though this dilettante couldn't find excuse enough to use such sportswriterly terms as teutonic wedge and the like. (Had the gents from 3,660-m-high La Paz triumphed, I had worked up a sportsy, turgid sentence along the lines of "driven by the lungs of mighty Wurlitzers...
Sammell's thesis is on the societalimplications of consuming llama meat in La Paz,Bolivia. She is studying the class structure andurban mythology surrounding the dish, she says,which is only eaten by the lower classes...