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...institution and every possible producer,” she says. At Harvard, Schyfter is creating another documentary, though she is eschewing her typically female-driven narratives in favor of portraying a significant Mexican historical figure that illuminates relations between the US and Mexico.Schyfter is currently researching nineteenth-century intellectual Melchor Ocampo, a Mexican liberal who wrote separation of Church and State into Mexican law and attempted to establish a free-trade treaty between Mexico and the United States. Having participated in government protests with her classmates at the National University of Mexico, Schyfter certainly relates to his progressive ideals. Still...

Author: By Roxanne J. Fequiere, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Schyfter Brings Ocampo To Harvard | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

...complaint process is the only means of redress a student has when a firm makes racist remarks," said Nyria Melchor, a second year law student...

Author: By Ivan Oransky, | Title: Law Students Protest Recruiting Interviews | 10/10/1990 | See Source »

Perhaps the most moving of these -- a Spanish equivalent, in its effort to embody intellect, of David's portrait of the Lavoisiers -- is his 1798 portrait of Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, the outstanding thinker of the Spanish Enlightenment, a much-exiled man who briefly held state office as the Minister of Religion and Justice under Carlos IV. Goya shows him at an ornate desk in the Madrid palace, lost in melancholy thought amid props that seem out of scale with his modesty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Goya, A Despairing Assault on Terminal Evil | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

Asked whether she felt guilty about eating during the fast, Nyria Melchor '88, who had pizza at Cafe Avventura said, "I felt more hungry than guilty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Than 3500 Observe Oxfam Fast | 12/5/1985 | See Source »

...nothing else, the Pope's visit will serve to regularize a number of informal liaisons among Filipino believers. Father Melchor Dano, pastor of a parish in Tondo, last month performed a mass wedding for 36 couples who had been living in sin. He followed that with a mass baptism for their children-so that all concerned could greet the Pope as bona fide Catholics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Sanitary Tour | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

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