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...been largely effective: measures taken by President Felipe Calderon and his health officials, as well as Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, appear to have stabilized the outbreak. Those measures included the closure of all but the most essential businesses and government services Friday through Tuesday, the nation's long Cinco de Mayo holiday weekend. On Thursday, for example, the government reported that the daily number of new suspected cases is now about a fifth of what it was less than a week ago. That "makes us optimistic," said Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova. "We had expected geometric or even exponential...
...Brush said they have been able to close two blocks of Miro Street—right across from Tulane’s campus—for special events like Cinco de Mayo parties, whereas closing two blocks of Mt. Auburn street for an iced-margarita party is almost laughably unlikely...
...Cambridge restaurant open later—it closes at 2 a.m. on weekends and midnight on weekdays—and he’d be open to a partnership with the other Harvard Square Mexican restaurants like Border Cafe, Qdoba, and the incoming Chipotle to host a Cinco de Mayo party like the one in New Orleans. But he says he’s not overly optimistic about the chances of something like that happening here in Cambridge...
...winter can be long and dreary, when days are short and the sunlight thin, we rely on the revelry of carnival and Mardi Gras to carry us over until spring and rebirth. Then come the patriotic plumes, of Memorial Day and Flag Day and July 4 (not to mention Cinco de Mayo, Bastille Day and Samoan Independence Day) before a long spell when the holidays themselves go on holiday. August is the rare month with no shared celebration in it, when we gasp along for weeks on end without collective permission to overspend, overeat and overindulge...
...we’re as racist as everyone else is. Subconsciously or otherwise, it explains why a collection of students at a Quad event last weekend involving two of Harvard’s most prominent black student organizations could be confused with campus trespassers. It explains why a recent Cinco de Mayo party at the University of Delaware had a “South of the Border” theme, featuring members of a predominantly white honor fraternity poking some highly-offensive fun at Latinos everywhere...