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...upper-class, Ricardo, already lovestruck at the ripe age of fifteen, fears he will never see her again. But he does, and often; as Comrade Arlette, a guerrilla fighter being trained by the Cuban revolutionaries; as Madame Robert Arnoux, the wife of a French bureaucrat; as Mrs. Patricia Robinson, the wife of a British racetrack regular; as Kuriko, the mistress of Japanese mobster; as Lucy, a broken woman. Vargas Llosa has worn many hats himself, from a prominent Latin American intellectual who hob-nobbed with the likes of Castro and Garcia Marquez to a one-time Peruvian presidential candidate, from...
...that is evident to anyone who has been to Wal-Mart. In her critique of certain protectionist policies, Lescroart falls into the general protectionist fallacy of seeing the availability of cheap products for Americans as a bad thing simply because those products come from outside our borders. DANIEL P. ROBINSON ’10 Cambridge, MA October...
...side is a reminder that there, too, rugby has spread far beyond its traditional domain as the erstwhile preserve of posh public-school types. Though a strong elite element remains, the current England team owes its success in part to such stars as Laurence Dallaglio, Paul Sackey and Jason Robinson (sons, respectively, of Italian, Jamaican and Ghanaian immigrants). Expect that diversity to grow: As television helps fuel rugby's popularity from the ground up, a rising number of the nation's best players will emerge from more modest milieus than Eton, Harrow and the school that gave the game...
Since fleeing to Paris last February, Nur has repeated the same message to President Bush's special envoy for Sudan, Andrew Natsios; French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner; and the former U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson. A steady stream of leading diplomats has met with Nur to plead with him to attend international peace talks with Sudan's government. "Everybody has been to see him, anybody who thinks they can have any influence whatsoever," says a European aid worker, who asked not to be named. "People are really, really, really trying to persuade him." That's because the mass killing...
...allegiance to African churches that have strong anti-homosexuality stances. In September alone, Americans William Atwood and William Murdoch were also consecrated by an African church, the Anglican Church of Kenya. Anglicans worldwide have been divided since the U.S. Episcopal Church, the Anglican Church's American branch, consecrated Gene Robinson as Anglicanism's first openly gay bishop four years...