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...want to know if Elvira Henares-Esguerra has the guts to lead a synchronized, global moment of breastfeeding taking place on Friday across 18 countries, bear in mind that this is a woman who didn't hesitate to nurse her child in front of an audience of 700 as she shared the stage with Philippines' President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in 2005. "You should have seen the [officers]," says Henares-Esguerra, recalling the moment her four-year-old son ran to the stage during the President's speech to inaugurate World Breastfeeding Week in the Philippines. "They all wanted to rush...
...campus, met with University administrators and students, and attended lectures and conferences. The delegates were selected in such a way as to guarantee representation of various facets of Soviet life. Among the members were Vlasenko, movie and stage actress Zinaida Kirienko, engineer Igor Markov, accordion player Vladimir Fedoseyev, and Elvira Astafyeva.While visiting the Harvard campus, the delegates lived in pairs at the Business School, Divinity School, Adams House, Kirkland House, Bertram Hall, and Comstock Hall.The group lost little time in visiting notable Cambridge and Boston locales.During their six and a half day stay, the delegates saw as much of Cambridge...
...official from Harvard’s Italian program said that the College Board’s decision to cut the Advanced Placement Italian exam starting next year might reduce the number of undergraduates pursuing citations, secondary fields, and concentrations in the language. Elvira G. DiFabio, the Italian program’s director of undergraduate studies, said the College Board’s decision was “really unfortunate” because AP Italian allows “more freshmen into the advanced classes” and “may even lead them to consider a concentration...
...become so powerful that American culture has turned into a binge-drinking culture. "Most of our holidays have become drinking holidays," says Drieslein, 47, a brassy woman with leopard-print eyeglasses and a smoker's voice. "Halloween used to be about trick-or-treating, and now it's about Elvira with a beer." Kids notice, she says...
...continue to be offered after these changes. The College Board cannot continue to offer two exams in each of these areas while simultaneously working toward its new goal of increasing support for teachers in these subjects, Jennifer L. Topiel, the executive director of communications, wrote in an e-mail. Elvira G. DiFabio, associate director of undergraduate studies in Italian, said that the suspension of the AP Italian exam will affect students pursuing a secondary field in Italian, because they may have to start at a lower level than if they had experience in an advanced Italian course in high school...