Word: jose
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...vote, was Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva - universally known as Lula - the candidate of the Workers' Party, which has in the past flirted with repudiating Brazil's massive external debt. Lula, 56, a former labor-union leader running for the presidency for a fourth time, is likely to defeat Jose Serra, the candidate of the governing coalition, in the runoff on Oct.27. Following the economic catastrophes in Argentina and Uruguay, American bankers fear that the commitment of Latin America to the Washington Consensus, the bundle of free-market policies that has been adopted on the continent since the late 1980s...
Cuba and its rich history come to life in the photography exhibit now on display at Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. According to Jose Luis Falconi, Latin American and Latino Art Forum coordinator and curator of the exhibition, “Cuba is very difficult to frame.” But this small show, representing two generations of Cuban history, manages to express the complexity of Cuban society in a way accessible to Harvard students...
...uneasy feeling that we may be letting an opportunity pass if we do not engage in an honest national discussion about the roots of the hatred of the U.S. A great nation should have nothing to fear from a candid review of its dealings with others. ERNEST MONTESANTO San Jose, Calif...
...hands-on activities,” must have appreciated the English lyrics and been thrilled by the familiar, rousing music of composer Georges Bizet. However, other audience members may have wondered if the sexual overtones of the performance, as evidenced by Carmen’s blatant seduction of Don Jose and her salacious dancing, were quite appropriate for the children present. Still, the multiracial cast of Carmen on the Common may have inspired some of the younger audience members and certainly must have broken the older audience members’ stereotypical views of opera as soley a Caucasian art form...
...Europe, terrorist analysts have long understood that those the RAND report calls "frustrated immigrants, drifters living on the margins of society, seekers of absolute truth or greater meaning for their lives" provide a rich field for terrorists to harvest. The cases of John Walker Lindh and Jose Padilla, coupled with the arrests in Lackawanna and earlier in Detroit and Oregon, suggest that the U.S. may already be facing the same phenomenon...