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Picture a time when love wasn’t free to flourish. Then picture Shirley and Pat. In the offices of the Franchise Tax Board in San Francisco, my cousin Shirley Greenblatt was known for making waves. This was in the ’70s, and her co-worker Anita Pagán remembers...
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I paused on a steamy February afternoon in Cartagena’s Plaza Santo Domingo. In the square’s center, tourists dined on fresh seafood and coconut rice at umbrella-shaded tables. At its edge was the 16th century Santo Domingo Church, whose twisted tower is —...
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When Uggie (the Jack Russell terrier that saved the day in the film The Artist) appeared onstage at the Academy Awards in February, it was, in a sense, a canine coup. Less than two weeks prior, a spokesperson for the film said that Uggie had “not been asked to appear...
