Word: latinization
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...Person of the Year should have been Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. His speech to the U.N. General Assembly aside, he has single-handedly changed the political makeup of Latin America for the benefit of all citizens, not just the rich. Roy Dickinson Fort Pierce, Florida...
...What makes the current investment mania unique is that it's happening in every imaginable investment category. When the crunch comes, emerging markets in general could be hit hard, but those that have gone up the most-places like Latin America, India, Russia and China-are likely to fall the most. At times like these, investors should remember that, while buying during selling panics tends to yield superior returns in years to come, euphoric buying binges often prove a wise time to sell. In today's heady environment, I'd recommend building up cash positions, not least by lowering exposure...
...posse - including Helen Mirren, Hugh Laurie, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Irons and Bill Nighy - were the night's big winners and big charmers. Why this makes us want to throw tea into the Beverly Hilton pool, we have no idea. But we're pretty sure we can talk the Latin posse (three Mexican directors, Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek), into helping us. If not, we'll have Governor Schwarzenegger look into their immigration status...
...Then Who? The person of the year [Dec. 25, 2006?Jan. 1, 2007] should have been Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. His speech to the U.N. General Assembly aside, he has single-handedly changed the political makeup of Latin America for the benefit of all citizens, not just the rich. Roy Dickinson Fort Pierce, Florida...
...process is increasingly demystified, "Light Sensitive" demonstrates again and again why the best pictures can tease and suspend our disbelief in ways that painting and sculpture can't. Here the lens dissembles as much as it documents, stretching "the camera never lies" maxim to breaking point. Appropriately titled Tensio-Latin for tension-is Brook Andrew's mirrored image of a currawong poised as if to attack a coiled snake. These are in fact stuffed museum exhibits, reappropriated by this Aboriginal lensman to tell his own personal Dreaming story (as academic Marcia Langton tells it, "When color spread throughout the bird...