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Summer 2000: I meet three foul-mouthed men in a bar in Puerto Maldonado, Peru. They are the most muscular and tattooed individuals in recent history. Of course, they emerge as former members of the U.S. Air Force and the Marines. After drinking copious Cusqueñas, they divulge information regarding their work with the U.S. Geological Survey, mapping the topography of Colombia, Peru and Bolivia. Later, it occurs to me that operatives of the CIA often work in a three-person group with a native guide and a small plane. “Well,” I think...
Juan M. Silva ’88 and Academy Award-winning actor Benicio Del Toro collected iguanas and South American alligators while growing up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Friends since childhood, Silva and Del Toro have abandoned reptiles and are now teaming up to make a movie, slated for release...
...priest of Irish descent ministering to a mostly Hispanic congregation, Shanahan, along with his flock, is the picture of the Roman Catholic Church's future in the U.S. For a year and a half, he has been the only full-time pastor for the 600 families, most of them Puerto Rican, at St. Mark Parish in near-northwest Chicago. At Mass last Thursday, he became drawn and somber when he talked about the recent scandals, calling them "broken promises...
...million unwanted cats are destroyed each year, it's hard to justify spending tens of thousands of dollars to clone a new one. Why not just adopt?" Who needs cc when there are so many originals out there and not enough homes for them all? EILEEN K. BLAU Mayaguez, Puerto Rico...
...second issue introduces the problem: Lily lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Tom lives in California, 15,000 miles away. After a single encounter they must consider how much it meant and whether the distance between them is surmountable. For anyone noticing Beland's Puerto Rico mailing address on the letters page, though, the suspense is ruptured. But the reason you read "True Story" is its vulnerability. It has completely let its guard down, as I suppose you need to do to fall in love. So we see Tom visiting his parent's grave and talking to them, and when...