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Authorities, however, have yet to file charges against Fisher, who at 75 is in poor health. The treasure hunter, who received widespread fame with the discovery of the 1622 wreck of the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha in 1985, says he no longer personally dives for the coins. But Fisher is adamant that he has sold no fakes. "The whole thing is absolutely baloney," he says. "There are thousands of different markings on these coins, and no one could ever counterfeit one of them because they are all different. These coins are absolutely real." A similar controversy over silver...
...most entertaining role went to Edie Bishop '00, who nearly stole the show with her over-the-top turn as Senora Sanchez, a veritable virago of a wife and mother. She also got the best song, "Marry a Matador." Sasha Badian '00 was almost equally comical in his double role as the henpecked Senor Sanchez and one of a quartet of philosophizing bulls...
...leave their leaflets behind to let everybody know who did it." Instead, the corporal directs his attention to the husband and wife who own the dreary bar where the construction workers gather each night: Dionisio, who, as his name suggests, is a prodigious reveler in his own establishment, and Senora Adriana, who reads palms and is regarded by her customers as a witch...
...graders, all Latinos, belt out their favorite song, El Rancho Grande. In the book corner: Los Tres Cochinitos--The Three Little Pigs. On the wall: the seasons, the months, the days, in both Spanish and English. In a mock interview, teacher Marina Williams asks Fabiola, a gap-toothed charmer, "Senora Presidente, what should children do in school?" Fabiola shoots back, "Aprender ingles!"--learn English. But one small boy has another idea: "Bailar!"--dance. The teacher takes the hint, winding up the day with a session of "la quebradita," a sort of Mexican jitterbug...
Above all, she never descends to absolutes, to didacticism, to over-simplification. The reader, like the protagonists, leaves Amapolas with an exhilarating ambiguity of emotion. No one can tell you what to make of Consider This, Senora. Consider that...