Yet despite that incredibly grouchy disposition, LA charmed me.
Which reminds me of a story Oscar de la Renta once told me about Daisy Fellowes, the stylish Singer sewing machine heiress.
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Un ejemplo: caminando por la calle Hamra me topo con una libreria abierta.
Me dijo que la gente estaba cansada y que se turnaba para hacer guardias.
Cela me ferait de la peine de quitter l'enseignement, dit-il.
Cuando vino por primera vez a mi pais yo estaba cursando 6to grado de primaria y recuerdo que conocimos su vida, su obra en el Colegio, recuerdo las imagenes en television y lo que me venia a la mente era bondad, amistad y paz, algo que vivi cuando lo vi en su segunda visita: la paz que contagiaba era increible.
Esta semana me dirijo a ustedes desde la planta de Boeing en Everett, Washington.
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In any case, with or without me, the team are first in La Liga and in their Champions League group.
Evan Browning, a 26-year-old freelance photographer based in New York City, e-mailed me after reading my last post about La Salada in Buenos Aires for the Megacities Blog.
"When Alex first came to me, I was hesitant, " de la Renta says.
Pascal Deyrolle, GM of La Samanna, which opened in 1974, recently told me that his longtime guests exercise the same sort of vigilance.
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He also let me leaf through a magnificent 1487 edition of La Comedia, the so-called Brescia Dante printed by Boninus de Boninis, the first edition illuminated with woodcuts.
Eso me permite actuar con libertad entendiendo muy bien toda la consecuencia que esto puedo generar, al pretender romper una sociedad de privilegios.
"Patrullamos el sector, cuidamos las escuelas en horas de entrada y salida, monitoreamos el transporte de las maquilas de las mujeres obreras cuando salen a altas horas de la noche para garantizar que lleguen seguras a sus hogares", me cuenta Juan Rivera, coordinador general de los Zorros del desierto.
Raymond tells me the lot came to her from a private seller in LA who typically bought clothes in multiple sizes.
Around the Mediterranean, the last of the artichokes often coincides with the first of the favas, and the result is a widely loved stew, called koukia me anginares in Greece, fritella or fritedda in Sicily or la vignarola in Rome, where peas are added.
Rusia me hizo un regalo de autoconocimiento, y le dio forma a la persona que hoy soy.
"This is deeply disturbing to me and the entire community, " said Barbara Nakaoka, superintendent of Hacienda La Puente Unified School District.
"If they don't kill me, I am going to win the 2013 elections, " Oviedo told Paraguay's La Nacion newspaper in 2011.
To me, Sheen came across not so much as the typical celebrity having a meltdown moment a la Britney Spears or Mel Gibson, but as someone severely disturbed.
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