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Andrés Eloy Ruiz, a humanities professor at Caracas' Central University and a spokesman for the Venezuelan education law that contains the new media rules, calls that nonsense. "This is not a 'Cuban' law," he says. Ruiz dismisses charges that the measure, which for the first time mandates bilingual education for indigenous children but also demands classrooms based on Bolivarian principles, will impose socialist instruction in schools. "There are no private schools or media in Cuba, but we guarantee their rights here," he adds. "We're simply requiring them to be responsible. The terrorist opposition wants to sow fear...
...Latin America, New Year's Eve is a more important celebration than Christmas. It is the one night when families make certain they're together. In Venezuela's most beloved poem, "The Grapes of Time," by Andres Eloy Blanco, an expatriate in Madrid weepily laments that he's not toasting midnight back in Caracas with his mother. That made it all the more emotional last week when Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, in his new role as mediator between the Colombian government and Colombia's fierce Marxist guerrillas, raised hopes that three of the rebels' hundreds of civilian hostages would...
...Fitzsimmons said. Fitzsimmons’ talk was well received by the students who nearly filled Fong Auditorium. Several said they would heed Fitzsimmons’ call to get involved. “It gave me motivation to go back to my high school and recruit,” said Eloy Villanueva ’08. Student organizers directed students interested in 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...
...uproot to Hilles, said that no other groups reported items missing as a result of the cross-campus move. The student groups did not have any involvement with the transportation of their items. “Nothing was in our control,” said Harvard-Radcliffe RAZA treasurer Eloy Villanueva ’08, whose group’s items all arrived safely. “We put our stuff in boxes and left it [labeled] in the office.” According to Pen, McLoughlin informed her that the moving company had photographed and catalogued...
...just multitask," she explains. "My parents always tell me I can't do homework while listening to music, but they don't understand that it helps me concentrate." The twins also multitask when hanging with friends, which has its own etiquette. "When I talk to my best friend Eloy," says Piers, "he'll have one earpiece [of his iPod] in and one out." Says Bronte: "If a friend thinks she's not getting my full attention, I just make it very clear that she is, even though I'm also listening to music...