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Three Harvard faculty members staged an academic protest over the weekend, reprimanding the State Department for denying visas to a group of Cuban scholars scheduled to attend a Latin American studies conference in Las Vegas...
...idea for a protest was conceived by three Harvard participants—John H. Coatsworth, director of Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; Jorge I. DomÃnguez, director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; and Lorena G. Barberia, a Rockefeller program associate...
Life has to be busy for the man who helped make Latin movies the hot dish in world cinema. From Spain, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, filmmakers have created works of whirling vigor, social conscience and a visual style just this side of surreal. And in these films audiences see compelling actors. Often in Almodóvar films--Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem got early spotlights in them...
...film movement cannot develop solely on the efforts of directors," Salles says. "Italy had great directors like Visconti and Fellini but also actors like Marcello Mastroianni and Giulietta Masina. Now in Latin America you have Alejandro González Iñárritu [Amores Perros] and Alfonso Cuarón [Y Tu Mamá También] but also a generation of young, talented actors such as Gael." García Bernal realizes his good fortune: "Destiny and luck have given me and many other actors the chance to be in a certain position where no one else has been...
MORE THAN 60 YEARS ago, a Polish Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin fled Nazi-occupied Europe, arrived in the U.S. and invented a word that he thought would change the world. Lemkin believed that genocide-- from the Greek geno (race or tribe) and the Latin cide (from caedere, killing)--would carry such stigma that states would be loath to commit the crime--or to allow...