Word: juan
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...haunted orphanage, a mass murder gone awry, a hidden basement, a kidnapped child, and an eerie, ghost-filled cave. Think this batch of scenarios will provide the basis for the next unbearably dull horror flick? Think again. “The Orphanage,” directed by Spanish newcomer Juan Antonio Bayona, is frightening, no doubt. The gloomy tone present throughout the entire film, the camera movements that crawl creepily around edges and corners in anticipation of jolt-inducing scenes, and spooky childhood games and lullabies will provide thrill-lovers exactly what they seek. But viewers will also come away...
...Transantiago has got very severe problems," says Juan Carlos Munoz, professor of transport engineering and logistics at Santiago's Pontifical Catholic University. "It's got better since it was launched but only very slowly. The main problems are still unresolved...
Some adversaries had good words for Chvez. "There's no doubt he brought necessary changes to a very corrupt Venezuela," says Juan Meja, a head of the student movement that led the opposition to Chvez at the referendum. Indeed, it was Chvez's electrifying emergence that paved the way for the election in this decade of other leftist heads of state, like Brazil's Luiz Incio Lula da Silva, Argentina's Nstor Kirchner and Chile's Michelle Bachelet, even if Chvez affects to disdain their moderate, market-oriented socialism. Sunday's humbling results...
...When I first came to Harvard, I thought people would be friends regardless of economic background, but my social circle ended up being a lot of HFAI students or students on financial aid,” says Juan S. Arias ’09, a recipient of HFAI...
...prices, but they'd also like him to lower inflation, Latin America's highest. And while they admire him for enfranchising the majority poor, they'd applaud as loudly if he did something to reduce their nightmarish crime. (Caracas on many weekends sees more than 50 murders.) Says Juan Mejia, 21, a leader of the student movement that galvanized opposition to the reforms, "Chvez can expect violent crime to be the reason for our next massive march - and he should march with...