Word: latinization
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...mayor of Panama City since 2001, Navarro has been hailed by CNN and TIME magazine as one of Latin America’s most promising leaders for the new millennium. He has served as the environmental ambassador for Panama, and is the youngest member to ever be elected regional councilor for Latin America for the World Conservation Union...
...meeting next Wednesday.ELEPHANTS IN THE ROOMSome professors expressed concern about the report’s emphasis on Faculty members rather than students, saying that the report’s authors, in seeking to improve Harvard’s classrooms, had paid little attention to student behavior.Professor of Latin Kathleen M. Coleman called for “mutual commitment on the part of teachers and learners.”“As the ancient Greeks knew, if all the oarsmen are put on one end of the trireme, it will sink or at least sail around in circles...
...instead of sitting through harangues by masochistic liberals who feel guilty because they’re not out living on the streets or fighting in Iraq. Because if we have to live in a bubble, we should at least carpe diem, is what I say (that’s Latin for “seize the bubble?...
...need for rule of law in Latin America, for example, should smack Bush squarely in the face when he visits U.S. allies Colombia and Guatemala this weekend. Scandals there - one involving Colombian senators allegedly in league with drug-trafficking paramilitary armies, and another implicating Guatemala's national police in the murder of three Salvadoran congressmen - are another harsh reminder that, despite what so many in Washington seem to think, elections alone don't constitute a democratic society...
...Which is why one of Bush's least talked about proposals this week - a White House conference on building stronger civil institutions in Latin America - may well be the most important. The oil-rich Chavez can throw his multibillion-dollar largesse around the hemisphere, but he can't claim much of a reputation for spreading democratic institutions, and that's an area where the U.S. could build an advantage over the Caracas caudillo. Bush noted this week that too many Latin Americans "have seen little improvement in their daily lives, and this has led some to question the value...