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...application to the prestigious Fulbright Program as a junior. At least, that’s what her transcript said. Truth be told, Denise L. Delaney ’08 isn’t a precocious junior, but rather a disgruntled senior. Returning from a spring semester abroad in Colombia, Delaney was surprised with a host of unnecessarily complicated problems— and she wasn’t alone.Encouraging study abroad at Harvard was a primary initiative of former University President Lawrence H. Summers. Despite his relatively short tenure, his legacy remains to this day. This fall, Harvard?...
...agreement on the Peruvian and Panamanian Free Trade treaties after some labor and environmental standards were added in. Peru has moved to enact these requirements, making it the most likely to pass muster with tree huggers and union lovers. But experts say there is little chance the other three - Colombia, South Korea and Panama (which has not yet passed laws similar to Peru's) - will see any action this year or next. And it is likely that they will have to be substantially rewritten in order to be considered...
...Siau Island tarsier and Hainan black-crested gibbon. Africa's seven endangered primates include the Cross River gorilla and Miss Waldron's red colobus, which scientists have not spotted since 1993 and fear may already be extinct. Madagascar follows with four endangered species, while South America has three. From Colombia to Southern China, primates are not faring well, and primatologists say their precarious existence is a problem for all of us. Even if we have never set eyes on a Peruvian yellow-tailed woolly monkey before, the species' well-being may affect our own. "Things may not change very much...
...Monteiro tracks the beginning of the trend to the late 1960s, soon after the Vatican II meeting in Colombia declared the church should focus more on Christ and less on saints and other icons. That ruling led many priests to remove beautiful sculptures of the Virgin Mary and other saints from display. Some were sold, often to raise money for a parish, and a whole new market was created...
...SUAREZ, COLOMBIA...