Word: alejandro
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...helping recruit to join the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program or the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative, which targets students at schools from lower socio-economic areas. “The difference that Latinos have had at becoming a force at Harvard,” is the main point that Alejandro R. Jerez ’08, a member of Concilio Latino’s executive committee, hopes that the audience took away from the meeting. “We’re not quite there yet, but we are aspiring to be a major presence,” he said...
...fellow at Harvard.“We began conversations, and I mentioned to Pedro a reference to Antanas Mockus who was currently teaching at Harvard a class on Hedonism and Pragmatism,” says Sommer.Mockus—along with Brazilian theater innovator Augusto Boal and Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky—became a major inspiration for Reyes as both he and Sommer continued to rethink the societal issues facing the world of contemporary art. “It was a unique opportunity,” says Reyes of his experience at Harvard, “because...
BabelParamount VantageDirected by Alejandro González IñárrituMexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu really digs vehicular disaster. Maybe a little too much. First there was “Amores Perros,” his 2000 debut—a brilliant, difficult movie about the intersecting lives led by victims of a car crash. “21 Grams,” his ambitious first Hollywood film, came in 2003, overwrought and under-felt. Like “Amores Perros,” it followed several fractured lives thrown together following...
Babel is Babel indeed. Director Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga are essentially up to the same trick they used brilliantly in Amores Perros, less so in 21 Grams--interweaving multiple stories about disparate individuals and eventually revealing their hidden connections. Since the characters are, in the present instance, operating on a global scale, some viewers will find Babel excitingly far-ranging. Others may find it merely far-fetched. Some will see the casting of Cate Blanchett as the wounded tourist and Brad Pitt as her husband as evidence that it aspires to be a major...
...confidence of her singing in her native tongue. The intricately crafted lyrics in songs like Escondite Ingls allow her to work out that wonderfully warbled voice. And Shakira's reputation for writhing is safe with La Tortura, her rocked-out-yet-folky duet with Spanish crooner Alejandro Sanz. You'll have no choice but to get up and dance...