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...years straight, Aaron Mihaly spent his summer vacations toiling for nonprofits in Latin America. So when he told friends and family what he would be doing last summer--an intensive program at an Ivy League business school--they thought he had given up on changing the world. "The common reaction I got was 'You're selling your soul to the devil,'" says Mihaly, 23, with a laugh...
...swayed in the wrong direction. THC: Tying into that, how was your experience with learning Arabic and Farsi for the film? GC: I had an Iranian roommate in college, so Farsi wasn’t so hard, but Arabic almost killed me. There’s no Latin to it, so there’s nothing I could really cling to. I had to learn it phonetically and it was a tricky thing, but you spend a few weeks just practicing and you start learning. —Staff writer Kristina M. Moore can be reached at moore2@fas.harvard.edu...
...Sony)3/5 Stars“Are you there God? Soy yo, Margaret…er, I mean Shakira.” The Latin diva’s latest album, “Oral Fixation, Volume II,” the English-language follow-up to 2001’s crossover smash, “Dirty Laundry,” addresses all the prepubescent questions of the Judy Blume novel: the Lord, boys, and female self-image. Shakira, however, is a grown woman and should have deeper thoughts than those...
Sure, there’s a Harvard dweeb in there—she’s writing her thesis on the Latin American drug trade. The girl’s nobody’s fool. But she exudes an effervescent sensibility, all manicured nails, dress-up outfits, and very tall pumps...
...defensiveness “indicative of the lack of confidence in our school system.” Although Cambridge spends around $6,000 more per pupil than most Massachusetts school systems, its public schools have recently experienced mixed success. In 2003, an accreditation group placed Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, the city’s only public high school, on probation, though it lifted that status earlier this year. —BRENDAN R. LINN