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...public hearing.” Nolan apologized for offending board members’ sense of procedure, but maintained that the motion contained ideas she had brought forth at previous meetings and should not come as a surprise. Numerous parents attended the meeting at Cambridge Ringe & Latin High School last night to speak in support of the motion. “It makes such sense,” said Maureen Manning, who has two children enrolled in the Cambridge school system and has lived in the city for 28 years. “If you’re trying to reach...
...more immediate question is whether Apocalypto can repeat The Passion's success. After all, devout Christians willing to sit through Latin and Aramaic dialogue to see Christ crucified vastly outnumber Maya scholars. Gibson seems certain that the film's "kinetic energy" will make Maya language and culture "cool" enough to attract a crowd. Maya prophecy says the current world, which began 5,000 years ago, will end in 2012. So, even if Apocalypto flops, Gibson will at least have given the Maya one last chance to get the word...
...countries in less than five years without getting lost? HSL Inc., launched in late 2000 with one product, posted U.S. sales of more than $36 million last year--an increase of 250%--and about $2.4 million in Europe (up a respectable 200%) while the company was opening up Latin America and combatting piracy in Asia. "Our marketing strategy is universal," says Mike Staffaroni, CEO of HSL, which is based in Carrollton, Texas. From Day One, the company has aimed at controlled distribution and growth, maintaining mystique by selling at premium-priced, higher-end retailers and "nix to the likes...
...Loeb Mainstage, which Dorin calls “the ultimate challenge in Harvard theater.” Yet in true Harvard fashion, Dorin still considers his academics to be a priority. Rather than directing another show, Dorin jokes, “I may just settle for mastering Medieval Latin instead.”—Margot E. Edelman
D?j? vu is, of course, a French concept, and it?s happening all over again this week as students battle police outside the Sorbonne in Paris' Latin Quarter. This week?s escalating conflict doesn?t have the same breadth or resonance as the famed riots of May 1968, when French students dug up cobblestones and tossed them at the police. But the problems it presents to the government of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, and what it says about France's continuing struggles to rein in its welfare state, are more than academic...