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Alvarez was born in Puerto Rico, although she moved to Brooklyn, New York before she was a year old and grew up there. She was the first in her immediate family to attend college, but had two sisters and a brother who followed her to Harvard. Before attending Harvard, Alvarez was in all-female Catholic schools...
...Although this summary does not even mention the recent developments in Zimbabwe--where President Robert Mugabe postponed parliamentary elections, his supporters murdered opposition members, and the opposition leader threatened to look for ways to defend his party--the events mentioned above still seem significant. European and African leaders met for the first time, 133 countries met in Cuba, and there was the public health summit which caused moderate optimism pending the World Bank's move to free long-needed funds...
...claims that their parents oppose is fairly clear cut: they can't. Many people remember the famous case of "Gregory K.," a 12-year-old who sued to "divorce" his parents in 1992 so that he could stay with the foster parents he loved. Not as many remember that although a Florida appeals court allowed Gregory to remain with his foster parents--it ruled that his natural mother had abandoned him--the same court refused his argument that he had any right to sue his biological parents in the first place...
...know the rules to win." Javier, 26, a laborer at Copper Mountain Resort, learned the hard way. He paid a $450 fine--about a week's wages--after he was pulled over for having a broken windshield. Then the Chihuahua native was charged with driving while impaired, although he insists he had only one beer...
...list of "official" sponsors of terrorism remains static - Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea and Sudan - although in many cases "qualifying" for the list (and the harsh sanctions that come with it) is somewhat of a stretch. "North Korea may have a couple of old-time Japanese Red Army terrorists from the '70s still kicking around there, but it's not considered an active sponsor of terrorism," says TIME Washington correspondent Massimo Calabresi. "But the U.S. is actively using North Korea's presence on that list as a bargaining chip in negotiations to get Pyongyang to back off on proliferating...