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...towns closer to the epicenter more than 12 hours after the earthquake hit. There have been more than 150 aftershocks, some measuring close to a magnitude 6 on the Richter scale. "I have not been able to reach my sister, who lives in a dangerous area," said Esther Tapia, a Lima homemaker who was heading to a shantytown on Lima's outskirts to check on relatives. "What would happen if these [earthquakes] continue...
...outsider it might look like a bunch of guys sitting around circular grandstands drinking beers and calling it sport, but a closer look reveals a unique cultural insight that few other events offer. "Cockfighting is a gentleman's sport that was first brought here by the Spanish," says Mario Tapia, publisher of the national bimonthly cockfighting magazine Gente de Gallos. "It's an event that draws all sectors of society together, everyone from doctors to politicians to the rural poor...
...cramped, cluttered home of Gloria Tapia and Victor Hernandez sits half a block off the I-5 freeway in Los Angeles. The couple, illegal immigrants from Mexico who became U.S. citizens through an amnesty program, raised six American-born children in the city. Today their two-bedroom bungalow is home to 11 people representing three generations and is the hive of activity for the extended family. Here, each relative feels the absence of Jose Cesar Aparicio, a reservist serving in Iraq, in a different way. Gloria, 51, misses her son, her confidant. Of all her children, she says, Cesar...
...crowd filtered out, HRL President Dan R. Tapia ’05 called the debate a success, saying his group was ready to argue abortion “any time, any place...
...acknowledges that the campaign is just an initial step in an incremental agenda culminating in the overturn of Roe. “[Abortion] is only going to be illegal when people understand that it hurts women and ends the life of the child,” says Tapia. “It’s a moot point to argue for it being illegal until you show that it’s wrong.” The strategy, it seems, is to rope in moderates with liberal language that will make them start listening, and begin to form an anti...