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Today, when Harvard students hear reggaeton’s distinctive Latin-Caribbean BOOM-ch-boom-chk echoing from a car radio or the speakers of Currier TLR, there’s a good chance they’re nodding their heads to the work of two superproducers who used to work just across campus in McKinlock Hall...
...reggaeton has gone mainstream, Luny Tunes have become two of its most recognizable faces. Nominations for their productions flooded the urban categories of the 2005 Premio Lo Nuestro awards, in which fans’ votes recognize Latin music; in February, they traveled to Miami to receive top “Urban Album” honors for “Mas Flow 2,” another multifaceted collection...
...Creating more area studies certificates similar to the existing Certificate in Latin American Studies...
...someone giving money to Harvard were a known supporter of terrorism or anything so vile. Perhaps we should look more carefully at gifts that have been made to Harvard over the years from people who could also have supported dictatorial regimes like those in the Middle East or Latin America, or insurgent causes like Northern Irish Republicanism. In the case of Islamic studies, however, it seems as though the very idea that one supports a better understanding of Islam suggests that one is trying to do something evil.The ubiquitous innuendo which is stirred up around the support of Islamic studies...
Coatsworth added that the establishment of the center at Harvard in 1994 helped stimulate interest in Latin America, and efforts by the Romance languages and literatures department have been particularly successful in attracting more students to Portuguese courses...