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...addition to Powell, the Hon. Patricia M. Wald, chief judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Hon. Juan R. Torruella, a First Circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals, will judge the court. The judges may interrupt the presentation to question the students, Robbins said...

Author: By Jeremy L. Hirsh, | Title: Former Justice Powell Will Judge Law School Moot Court Contest | 11/17/1988 | See Source »

...demands were not met. On the afternoon of the last day of the year, 200 or so union members met in the Dupont Plaza's ballroom for more than an hour and voted to allow their leaders to call a strike. "The next we know," claimed Attorney Rudy Torruella, the hotel's negotiator, "is that immediately a fire broke out in the ballroom. In attempts to put out the fire by going through the kitchen door to the ballroom, ((hotel employees)) found that a door was barred, barricaded from the inside." Nonetheless, Torruella refused to speculate about who might have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Year We'll Never Forget | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

...violent deaths in El Salvador last year, and this year the total already tops 3,000. Tens of thousands of peasants have been forced to flee the countryside and settle in makeshift refugee camps in the larger cities and across the border in Honduras. As Father Manuel Torruella said in his homily at San Salvador Cathedral last Sunday, "It is sad to see our country destroyed. What will be left to a country as poor as ours after this? No matter who wins, what will we have left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: What Will We Have Left? | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

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