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When Gerardo comes home with Dr. Roberto Miranda (Sergio Rafael ’05), a good samaritan who helped Gerardo when his car broke down, Paulina recognizes the doctor as her former tormentor. Soon, Miranda is tied in a chair and pleading to be released as Paulina brandishes a gun and attempts to force Miranda to confess...
Although Stevens says he enjoyed reading Dorfman’s play, he thought it would be too forced on the stage. Luckily, Harvard connections helped Stevens get in touch with Rafael Yglesias, the screenwriter who adapted Dorfman’s script. Rafael’s son, Matthew G. Yglesias ’03, lived across the hall from Stevens as a first-year. “So I e-mailed him and he hooked me up with his dad,” Stevens says...
...Lady of the Angels is the work of Jose Rafael Moneo, the great Spanish architect whose roots are simultaneously in the here and now and in the sunlit antiquity of the Mediterranean rim. It was built in part because the Los Angeles archdiocese's previous seat, a much smaller church called St. Vibiana's, was badly damaged in the 1994 earthquake. But it was also built because L.A.'s powerful Roger Cardinal Mahony wanted it. Six years ago Mahony interviewed for the project a series of architects, including Frank Gehry, whose irresistible Walt Disney Concert Hall is going up just...
Avila lived an unusual life. He moved among the apartments of his mother and sister, which are next to each other, and of his present girlfriend Ruby. He also had a family background packed with violence. His father Rafael, a butcher, was convicted of shooting a neighbor to death. Avila was only 17 at the time. Just a year ago, his brother Juan was found dead in Rosarito, Mexico, with a bullet in the back of his neck...
DIED. JOAQUIN BALAGUER, 95, fedora-donning six-term President of the Dominican Republic; in Santo Domingo. Balaguer succeeded his boss, dictator Rafael Trujillo, winning the presidency in U.S.-controlled elections in 1966. One of Latin America's last caudillos--or benevolent dictators--he maintained power for 22 years despite repressive tactics, establishing a loyal power base, largely through his paternal devotion to the country's poor...