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With his cap visor pulled low over his face, Jalson Espinoza watches a group of gang members from a rival neighborhood push through a massive throng of Sandinista supporters gathered to hear President Daniel Ortega speak. To the outside observer, many of the other young men in the crowd looked just as tough and menacing, dressed in bandanas and going shirtless to show off their tattoos. But very few of them are true gangbangers, Espinoza says. "You can tell who the real vagos are by the way they walk," he says in a raspy voice, using the Nicaraguan term...
...throng of worshippers gathered in the outdoor courtyard of the Danilov Monastery where the hour-long ceremony was held, standing on their toes to get a peek at their spiritual leader, Patriarch Alexy II, as he blessed the bells with incense and performed other Orthodox rites...
...council meeting that week was dominated by a throng of hotel workers, who had just been notified that their jobs had been terminated. After nearly 90 minutes of public comment—and several photo opportunities with the council—the travel appropriation passed unanimously and without debate...
...small crowd had gathered outside Sever Hall, and as Theodore S. Stamas ’82 moved towards the throng of people, he could see his roommate, David E. Sanger ’82, in the middle of the fray...
...year after its successful “Pointe/Counterpointe,” the Harvard Ballet Company (HBC) is a completely different organization—but it has maintained a high quality of performance in its spring show, “Bravura and Blues.” With a throng of new, talented freshmen, the greatest triumph of the HBC’s latest recital is its demonstration of impressive technical skill on pointe...