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...protagonist, The Painter of Birds is a coming of age story much like Julia Alvarez’s How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. Jorge’s characters, like Alvarez’s, live in a large family compound under the guidance of a stern father who watches in pain as his offspring leave him and his family values behind for a more modern world. The daughter that is left behind is the secret and shame of the family. Her father is actually Walter, one of the sons who has gone out into the world...
...Andy Stern, the president of the SEIU International Union called Offner on his cell phone during the rally to endorse the sit-in and thanked the students for "speaking out against injustice...
...Stern and the rest of the AFL-CIO executive board plan to travel to the Yard next week to show their support for the ongoing sit-in, Offner said...
Brown starter Jonathan Stern pitched well except for one inning, as the Crimson exploded for seven unearned runs in the top of the third...
...mind. His sub had gone down to 400 ft. and shot back again in a rapid-surfacing maneuver known as an "emergency blow"--directly underneath the Ehime Maru. As it broke the surface, the Greeneville's HY 80 steel rudder, specially reinforced to punch through ice, ripped open the stern of the Japanese ship. "When I put up the periscope after the collision and increased magnification, I saw all those little people tumbling in the water. I felt disbelief, regret, remorse, anxiety, rage, denial...This was something I had no control over. I couldn't change what happened...