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...Chávez sin Uniforme (Hugo Chávez Out of Uniform). Venezuela's ambassador to the U.N., Francisco Arias, a former classmate who took part with Chávez in a 1992 coup attempt, says that when the two men went through military training together, "Hugo was the one cadet who stood up to the awful hazing" at the academy...
...fears turned out to be groundless. The one emotion everyone showed was happiness to see me alive, maimed or not. But two exchanges stood out. My sister surprised me with a gift: a 1900 silver dollar our gambler father had won in Las Vegas and given to her in 1956 when she was 8 years...
...blizzard plowed into Washington one day in late January. We packed into Victor's car and went sledding. I stood at the bottom of the hill and watched. The sun sparkled on their snowsuits like tiny stars. They laughed and called out: "Watch this, Dad." "Did you see me, Daddy?" I waved and wept at these beautiful sounds, realizing how close I had come to never hearing them again...
Matt Ward stood in the back corner of the Somerville Theatre last Sunday night, sipping a drink and smiling in the dark. Dressed, like those around him who would soon be his audience, in the requisite apparel of the nebulous “indie-folk” genre (flannel, baseball caps), he clapped politely as Oakley Hall, the opening act, crooned and clapped their way through an enjoyable, if overly loud, 40 minute...
...record has stood for 35 years.Despite three tests in the last 15 years, no one has ever come within 50 yards of Cornell legend Ed Marinaro’s all-time Ivy career rushing record of 4,715.This year a fourth player will make a run at the top of the list.Senior tailback Clifton Dawson’s numbers are projected not only to approach, but to surpass Marinaro’s.The back entered the 2006 campaign with 3,628 career yards, needing just 1,087 to break the 1971 record. With 170 yards in the team?...