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Quinceanera festivities, which have roots in Aztec and Catholic traditions, have been around Latin America for centuries, but as the number of Latinos in the U.S. has grown (there are currently more than 35 million), such celebrations have become more commercial and more mainstream. Wal-Mart now stocks budget quinceanera gowns in 200 stores in 30 states, and the David's Bridal chain has dresses made exclusively for the market. Royal Caribbean offers seven-day quinceanera cruises out of Miami (at $850 to $1,200 a head), which are booked solid into next year. This fall the company will offer...
...fields of suburban Long Island where Foer first played the game as a child. America's professional soccer clubs - or "franchises," as they're uniquely known in the U.S. - were created from scratch in the 1990s, and carry none of the encoded history that many of their European and Latin Americans counterparts do. And given its place in America's domestic "culture wars," support for the U.S. national soccer team is hardly an outlet for jingoistic nationalism. Indeed, in my own experience, American audiences are more often than not oblivious to the meanings being attached to the game by fans...
...warmth, wit and an uncanny ability to put people at ease, no matter their ideology. But aside from his charisma, I remember his mean-spirited remarks about "welfare queens" and longhaired war protesters. Reagan's ardent, almost religious anticommunism led the U.S. to support right-wing dictators in Latin America and elsewhere around the globe who routinely killed their own citizens. On Reagan's watch, our federal budget deficit ballooned out of control like never before in an orgy of fiscal irresponsibility. Even as we grieve for Reagan, we must remember that his presidency was an era of harm...
...heavyweight fight for beer drinkers around the globe. For decades the beer business has been relatively fragmented, dominated by local tastes and brewers. In recent years, multinational players like Anheuser-Busch, SABMiller, Heineken and Interbrew have embarked on a wave of consolidation, buying up smaller brands in Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia. In May, SABMiller and A-B briefly engaged in a bidding war for Harbin, the fourth largest brewery in China, which is now the fastest growing and biggest beer market in the world. Though SAB lost out to Anheuser's higher offer, Miller's parent still holds...
Professor of Greek and Latin Richard F. Thomas said Luraghi’s talent was clear from the time Harvard first considered hiring him, about five years...