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...global family of more than 50,000 volunteers in 73 countries, dedicated to charity, evangelizing and peacemaking. Funded by contributions and subscriptions, the group has been called upon to function as arbiter and conciliator in a score of major peace negotiations in the Middle East, the Balkans, Latin America, Africa and Asia. "We're not dreamers," Riccardi says. "We need to convince the people that peace is the best situation for them and that war is madness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Andrea Riccardi | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...painted white to symbolize nonviolence. That traditional method of expressing discontent was combined with decidedly 21st century ones, as the activists used text messages, Facebook groups and YouTube broadcasts to draw crowds. Despite some clashes with police, the marches were significantly more peaceful than the militant student mobilizations of Latin America's past. "We believe in a civic, peaceful fight," Sánchez says, citing the examples of Mohandas Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and the Rev. Martin Luther King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peace (at Least a Little) on Earth | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...three million dollars in our budget, we are managing to do things other schools aren’t within our budget,” Fowler-Finn said. Cambridge resident Peter Schweich criticized the superintendent for incorrectly representing the progress of Cambridge schools. He said that the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) graduation rates, proclaimed as “among the highest in the state” on the district’s Web site, mask the fact that Cambridge is in the “42nd percentile in the listing of all public schools in the commonwealth...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Budget Proposal Critiqued | 4/2/2008 | See Source »

...future is a free market economy tempered by a responsible government and redistributive social policies. Fox said that Mexico needs leaders who think big and who will govern the nation with consistency. “The shortest path between two points is a straight line. We in Latin America like to go to left for six years, right for six years, then back to the center,” said Fox. He called it a “zig-zag” situation where “it takes a long time to get where you are going...

Author: By Mark D. Hoadley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fox Calls for Free Market in Mexico | 4/1/2008 | See Source »

...movie has plenty of familiar faces - and voices - for Latin audiences. Ubiquitous L.A. disc jockey El Cucuy blares on the alarm clock, the rock group Kinky sings the corrido "Superman es Ilegal," and the band Los Tigres del Norte pick up a hitchhiking Carlito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Hispanic Hit at the Cineplex | 3/28/2008 | See Source »

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