Word: serafin
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Fifteen hundred miles south, in the Sierra Negra, lies a poorer and more conservative Mexico. Here along the dry river beds suspicion of Uncle Sam remains pronounced. ``How did Mexico fall so quickly?'' asks Serafin Perez Nava, mayor of San JoseTetla (pop. 800). ``Under Salinas we thought we had prestige, but it washed away like a sand castle. Now they are mortgaging our country. What happens later if we can't pay our debts? Will the U.S. then ask for part of our territory?'' Carlos Garcia Moreno teaches 17 children in a one-room schoolhouse. His $70-a-week salary...
Last month prosecutors subpoenaed records from Rostenkowski's 1992 re- election campaign as well as records of Serafin Associates in Chicago, a company that worked for Rostenkowski's campaign. The Illinois Democrat has also been ordered to turn over his vouchers for goods and services over the past six years. In addition, at least 20 of Rostenkowski's former and current staff members have been called to testify. Federal prosecutors are trying to learn whether Rostenkowski and other legislators made efforts to coerce staff members into shielding them from criminal charges by taking responsibility for the alleged scheme...
...press misreads Summerchild's lifestyle completely; he is at once more simple and more involved than they imagine. Jessel discovers, through transcripts and cassette tapes, that Summerchild worked on an inquiry of his own: along with philosophy professor Elizabeth Serafin, Summerchild searched for the nature of happiness...
Jessel lives vicariously what he believes life had been like for Summerchild and Serafin, based on the skeletal framework he constructs of transcripts, tapes, memos and photographs. As they had sought happiness, so does...
...distance from his own life increases as the story of Summerchild and Serafin (and Jessel) reaches its crescendo, and the characters and plot of his own story become more and more alien...