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...Spanish language and Latin American cultures continue their slow creep into the American mainstream, it should come as no surprise that comics have begun to reflect that change. But where lesser comix have settled for throwing a token Latino into the story, La Perdida ($20; 275 pages), Jessica Abel's intense new graphic novel from Pantheon, goes deeper. In fact, it goes "native." Featuring a story about an idealistic American living in Mexico and written in Spanglish dialogue, La Perdida examines what is increasingly becoming a major cultural shift in the U.S. by looking at it from the other side...
...meeting last night between school officials and parents, Cambridge Public School administrators announced that they would begin screening applicants on Wednesday to fill the principal position at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS). In January, Sybil N. Knight, the current CRLS principal, announced that she would step down on July 1 to accept a job offer as an assistant superintendent in Pennsylvania. Cambridge Public School Superintendent Thomas Fowler-Finn said that he expected the high school to have little problem attracting candidates to fulfill the job, even though the “toughest job in education today is probably...
...beings and are thus entitled to basic human rights. But let us abandon these philosophical arguments and look at the economic facts. Although immigrants send important remittances to Mexico, this figure adds up to roughly 0.3 percent of America’s GDP (which includes remittances to all of Latin America). This is unlikely to have a significant impact on the American economy. On the other hand, these remittances increase the standard of living in Mexico, which, in the long run, reduces immigration. Moreover, undocumented workers pay sales and property taxes just like American citizens. In addition to paying federal...
...today. From there, the earliest immigrants would have made their way south through an ice-free corridor that geologists know cut through what are now the Yukon and Mackenzie river valleys, then along the eastern flank of the Canadian Rockies to the continental U.S. and on to Latin America...
...last film, The Passion of the Christ, was spoken entirely in the dead languages of Latin and Aramaic.? Now Mel Gibson will appear in a brief spot on this Sunday?s Oscar broadcast speaking another exotic tongue:? Maya.? That's the sole language of Apocalypto, the adventure epic set in Pre-Columbian Mexico that Gibson is currently shooting on the edge of southern Mexico's rainforests, in the state of Veracruz. ""I wanted to shake up the stale action-adventure genre," Gibson told TIME, which was given an exclusive peek at the filming for a story to appear...