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...special thing about HACIA is that we're teaching democracy to a part of the world that needs it so badly," says Program Director Mario J. Garcia-Serra...
...most rewarding part about it is the friends you make," Garcia-Serra says. "It's my third time going, and I felt like I was just going to see old friends and family...
...copy faces large from small photographs. "Large" means enormous--canvases 8 ft. or 9 ft. high, filled with the staring face of someone you probably don't know and who has no special public existence. (All Close's sitters were his friends, mostly artists such as the sculptor Richard Serra or the painter Joe Zucker, none of them well known at the time. He has never done a commissioned portrait.) He began his big faces in the late 1960s, working directly from black-and-white photographs he took himself. The results were very strange. The images weren't "expressive." Their...
Mario J. Garcia-Serra '98 said, "This slow-moving process is justifiably aggravating to the ever-busy senior...
...court reconvened on Wednesday afternoon amid hopes that the opening statements could proceed. Judge Burrell announced that the issue of representation had been resolved; Kaczynski would cooperate with his lawyers. But Kaczynski was not done surprising the court. It seems that San Francisco defense attorney J. Tony Serra had faxed the court an offer to represent Kaczynski for free if he could fire his attorneys. In a phone call just before court reconvened, Serra told Kaczynski he would not use a mental-illness defense. "I would like to be represented by him," Kaczynski announced to the stunned audience. Judge Burrell...