Word: florencia
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...broaden the definition. This season the company will present Manuel Penella's 1916 Spanish opera El Gato Montes as well as Antonio Carlos Gomes' 1870 Il Guarany, written, alas, in Italian but set in the Amazon. Meanwhile, the Houston Grand Opera offers the world premiere of Daniel Catan's Florencia en el Amazonas, based on stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez...
...know what the controversy is about," said Florencia M. Greer '97, commenting on Asante's philosophy. "I think his belief about Afrocentricity as a philosophy that does not wish to impose itself is completely logical. I think his goal is to teach true history of the African nations and their rulers...
...next street, heard the shots and ran over to find the boy sprawled on the street, his blood seeping onto the concrete. "I was mad, everybody was." Henry didn't get a chance to vent his anger until much later, for a different shooting by a different gang. After Florencia gang members shot a Grape Street member in the leg, the Grape Street gang had a meeting, and Henry and two other friends volunteered for the mission. "I wanted to do it," he says...
They walked 20 blocks, entered the Florencia neighborhood through back alleys and just started firing. "I shot three times, and the second shot hit one of them," Henry recalls. "The others jumped behind a car, but this guy fell down. I could see the blood, and I could hear him calling out." Henry remembers his heart racing as he headed home, where "I just calmed down." Of the shooting, he can only say, "It felt weird, I dunno, just weird...
Inside prison, Henry met one of his nemeses, a 15-year-old Florencia member named Saoul whom he had once shot at in a park. Saoul approached him. "Say, ain't you from Grape Street? Didn't you shoot at me?" he asked. After a moment of silent appraisal, Henry says, "we both just started laughing." They talked. "He's a nice guy, you know, normal," Henry says. "We won't fight each other anymore, but I'll fight his friends...