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...graduate student who taught introductory Latin courses, Meyers was an active member of the Jewish community, remembered by friends and family for his kindness and his sense of humor...

Author: By Ahmed N. Mabruk, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Student Killed In Accident | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...enthusiasm for Latin was just contagious,” said Rachel D. Bennett ’11, who took one of Meyers’ introductory Latin classes last semester...

Author: By Ahmed N. Mabruk, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Student Killed In Accident | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

MEXICO CITY Latin American music icon Alan Boguslavsky is a Nokia N95 ($699) user for its advanced multimedia players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The A List | 3/17/2008 | See Source »

...continued to work to wipe out coca's drug-related cultivation, destroy the labs that process it into cocaine and intercept traffickers. But this month's INCB report seeks to end that uneasy arrangement. A big reason is that despite the decades-long, multi-billion-dollar drug war in Latin America, cocaine production has remained stable at best. Criminalizing even traditional coca use may be the only means agencies like the INCB feel they have left to salvage the anti-drug mission. Consuming the raw, unprocessed leaf, says the INCB report, abets "the progression of drug dependence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting for the Right to Chew Coca | 3/17/2008 | See Source »

...signs taken for wonders? Historically, the sword and motto have little to do with the image of the Native American. They were both tacked on to the seal during the Revolutionary War, at a time when Massachusetts was at the center of a bloody political struggle against monarchism. The Latin motto is lifted from the English rebel Algernon Sydney, a vehement opponent of the Restoration who was executed for conspiring to kill Charles II. It refers not to a conquest of native peoples but to an ethos of colonial liberation that had become the archetypal sentiment of Massachusetts patriots...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: The Semiotics of the Seal | 3/14/2008 | See Source »

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