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...immigration leaders support the boycotts and store closures. "No Falte a su Trabajo! No Falte a la Escuela!" ("Don?t Skip Work! Don?t Skip School!") read flyers plastered up and down Cicero's Cermak Road. Rather than advocating work and spending stoppages or classroom boycotts, as is the case in other cities. Chicago protest leaders are taking a more moderate approach. Sending a united message calling for "fair and reasonable" reform, Chicago area leaders are mobilizing voter registration tables, legalization petitions directed at members of Congress and public demonstrations. Two large marches, one from the north, the other from...
...family. But the sanctuary was converted into a stable during the Cultural Revolution. Today, it has been rebuilt with more than $100,000 in donations from a vast diaspora of Wangs all over the world, who want a place to venerate their ancestors. "My parents worshipped Chairman Mao," says Su Min, a 31-year-old tourism official who prays twice a month at the Zhenwu Taoist Temple near Quanzhou. "Then we believed in [former Chinese leader] Deng Xiaoping because he brought economic reforms that made our lives better. But now after Deng, we don't have anyone to believe...
...Friday night, 20 undergraduates from a Habitat for Humanity trip danced cha-cha on the dark floor of a club called Cafe Brasil. Some sipped out of plastic cups, listening to a man singing on stage. The act was Fredy Omar con su Banda, an eight-member crew with one main vocalist—Fredy Omar himself...
...where people barely noticed them." KFC, with 1,200 restaurants, began rebuilding its image in China last summer. On its Chinese website, KFC presented a 1950s revolutionary-style picture of a fist (a symbol of the proletariat). The headline reads: KFC CHANGES FOR CHINA. Owner Yum Brands' Chinese CEO Su Jingshi says KFC is determined to provide Chinese-friendly food, like Cantonese egg tarts. KFC also reorganized one of its most popular meal combos: it replaced Coke and French fries with juice and fruit...
...evaluar el poder del arzobispo de San Antonio, Jos? G?mez, su ex jefe, el arzobispo de Denver, Charles Chaput, dice de manera entusiasta, "A ?l lo escuchan en el estado de Texas y en la Conferencia de Obispos de Estados Unidos. Lo escuchan en Roma. Y creo que el gobierno federal lo escuchar? cuando traten asuntos relacionados con las leyes de inmigraci?n?. El a?o pasado, G?mez fungi? como obispo auxiliar, trabajando para Chaput en Denver. Pero en diciembre, el papa Juan Pablo II coloc? al modesto cl?rigo de 53 a?os por encima de cientos de obispos para ser el centro...