Word: latinas
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...have promoted her career--made stand-up comic Marilyn Martinez a heroine among her fans. The racy, unapologetically "fat" Martinez had tiny roles on TV (My Wife and Kids) and in film (Pauly Shore Is Dead) but mostly liked to discomfit her male-dominated industry in gigs with all-Latina troupes such as the Hot and Spicy Mamitas and the Latin Divas of Comedy, with whom she anchored a cable special this year. She was 52 and had colon cancer...
Other schools have a broad ban on "inappropriate displays of affection," or IPDAs. Proponents say it gives school administrators more discretion in interpreting what constitutes "inappropriate" behavior. Yet that same discretion potentially exposes administrators to accusations of unfairly targeting, say, a Latina for braiding a friend's hair, or for showing favoritism by failing to reprimand the football team's quarterback who playfully smacks a teammate's back after...
...There are differences of language and nationality. A Latino can speak Spanish or Portuguese or Quechua,” said the president of Fuerza Latina, Juan Sebastian Arias ’09, before a crowd eating food from all around the region. “This month is about sharing this diversity and getting to know [our] similarities...
Arias said that only three years ago, there was little intermingling between members of Harvard’s Latino groups. For instance, he said, members of Fuerza Latina, which started out as a purely Dominican group, rarely came to events hosted by Raza, a group focused on promoting Mexican-American culture, or vice versa...
Lacy R. Kline ’09 of Pforzheimer House, who had never attended a Fuerza Latina event, stumbled upon Fieston only because her House’s dining hall was closed for the occasion. She said that the celebration was a great way to get to know Latino culture...