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The ancient legend of La Llorona has been traced to pre-Columbian times in Mexico, and there is continuing discussion whether it may also have medieval European origins.
You can have one carved just for you, with your name incised — perhaps in ancient Chinese block characters — in soapstone, plastic, jade, or ivory.
Just inside the southern part of the ancient wall there is another street that has escaped renaming, although it commemorates a Fascist victory in the Italian-Ethiopian war.
de Young Museum, San Francisco; and a new company, Atlantic Networks, plans to work with major museums to produce a "Great Civilizations" series, which will display "the finest archaeological works of art, together with reconstructions and virtual reality visits to ancient sites."
Saturday my study group (go ahead, laugh) met to discuss Doug Henwood's new book Wall Street (I missed this session because I hadn't read the book) and at lunchtime they went to a demonstration in Union Square, that was supposed to be of Latino sweatshop workers, and came away reeling: maybe fifteen people, mostly ancient sectarians and a few young ones, all full of the old rhetoric (a moment of silence followed by a "moment of rage" with raised fists but some people didn't know how to do it, memories of the black athletes' stand at the Mexico City Olympics having faded).