Word: latinization
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...Arabic, Farsi and Korean. Negroponte told TIME last April that such recruitment was improving but could only go so fast. "We're beefing up in places where we hadn't been, where we'd allowed things to atrophy during the, after the end of the Cold War in Latin America and Africa," he said. But, he conceded, the progress is "maybe not exactly as fast as we would like in terms of increasing the humint collectors [that is, spies] by 50%, but that's because there's a lot of support activities that are involved. There...
...Cambridge Public Schools ended a nearly 10-month long, nationwide search for the next head of Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS), naming acting chief Christopher Saheed to hold the post of principal permanently...
...couldn't help but notice that they were costumed - red for Stanford - and there were painted faces and so on. What I argue in the book is people have managed to carnivalize sports events, to turn them into occasions for feasting, costuming, masking and dancing. They literally dance in Latin American soccer stadiums, but in North America, they are more likely doing the Wave or some other kind of rhythmic activity that everyone participates...
...Chair of the Classics Department and Professor of Greek and Latin Richard F. Thomas taught Freshman Seminar 37u: “Bob Dylan” in Fall 2004 and is the outgoing Arts Chair’s favorite person on campus...
...regularly denounced Pinochet’s torture and execution of his political opponents, yet the same organizations often overlook Cuba’s then routine torture of tens of thousands of its dissidents. Not to mention the atrocities committed in the Stalinist Soviet Union, Maoist China, or other socialist Latin American governments. It is important to remember that communism can be very dangerous—especially in South America, where communist revolutionaries were often backed by naïve electorates and armies of loyal guerilla fighters. Compared to other South American dictatorships—and many communist states worldwide?...