Word: alonzo
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...called her the Terminator back home," he says. "In our house, if you cried about something, you'd get laughed at." In a crowded house, tempers flared. Henry and his brother Angel, 22, were sparring partners. "They used to freakin' pull out chains and knives and s___," says brother Alonzo, 28, who made the trip to Beijing with Angel, their sister Gloria, 25, and an entourage of former coaches and close friends. The practice at home paid off: combined, Angel and Henry won six Arizona state wrestling titles...
...anonymity has been as crucial a part of Banksy's mythology as irony and wit. "Anything that's ever been written about him centers around the anonymity - that he's this Batman, this cult figure," says Pedro Alonzo, who curated an exhibition in England to which Banksy contributed. But that doesn't necessarily mean being unmasked would hurt Banksy's popularity. The intrigue over his identity has been a "double-edged sword," Alonzo says, since it has occluded the messages bundled in his art. "His work is a call to action. It's about hierarchies of power, social injustice...
...increased public awareness can be a mixed blessing. In his book Disappearing World: 101 of the Earth's Most Extraordinary and Endangered Places , heritage consultant Alonzo Addison lists unsustainable tourism as one of the key threats to the world's cultural and natural wonders. And there is no doubt that a site's presence on the World Heritage List enhances tourist appeal. "A lot of state parties are tempted to change this from being an environmental and cultural treaty into a tourism promotion committee," says Lincoln Siliakus, an activist with the Wilderness Society of Australia who was in Quebec City...
...opinions Huntington expressed in his most recent book, “Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity.” In the book, Huntington suggests that Mexican-Americans might be failing to assimilate into American culture as past immigrants have, an assertion that Alonzo characterized as alarmist. “I think he’s crossed the line and he’s appealing to nativistic attitudes, which is very harmful,” Alonzo said. But Huntington dismissed the demonstrators, claiming that they were poorly informed and didn’t understand...
Around the same time Young helped make the Celebration a bigger event, Alonzo P. Sherman ’03 played the BMF up socially and rejuvenated it with a fresh burst of energy, engineering the first annual Paintball Challenge his junior year with other ethnic male organizations. That year was also the first time the BMF took its members to Montreal for The Caribbean Students Forum, an event that Sherman calls 70 percent social...