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...Engineering and Applied Sciences, which professors voted on Tuesday to rename the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. “More professors and courses in that area resonated very well when we went out and talked to interested applicants,” Fitzsimmons said. The number of Mexican American early admits increased to 22 from 14 last year and the number of non-Mexican Hispanic early admits increased to 36 from 30 last year, according to Fitzsimmons. Finally, he said the upward trend in foreign nationals and students eligible for the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative continued for this year...
...answer, of course, is that the cross's iconography was a lot simpler than Mexican history. I called Charles C. Mann, author of the highly respected history 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. Mann first noted a couple of anachronisms in the film. The Mayan capital, including any great temple of the sort in the film, had mysteriously disappeared 700 years before the Spanish arrived. Moreover, although the Mayans probably engaged in some human sacrifice, there is no evidence that they practiced it on the industrial scale depicted in the movie For that, as the Guggenheim exhibit suggested...
...Cambridge begins its trudge toward another frigid winter, Mirla Urzua is trying to convince students in balmy Los Angeles to spend their next four years in Cambridge. Through the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program (UMRP), Urzua reaches out to her Mexican-American counterparts and convinces them to brave the cold and become members of Harvard’s next generation. “[Urzua]’s been an inspiration to me since she called me last spring and convinced me to come to Harvard,” says freshman Diana C. Robles...
...region where "government is the economy," Hernandez said, Bonilla had been able to parlay his seat on the appropriations committee into a sizable campaign war chest and a powerful platform. The district stretches from El Paso east to San Antonio and south to the Mexican border, embracing several cities with large military bases and poor, rural counties where federal programs are vital. But once the power shifted away from Republicans in the House, in Hernandez's view, independent voters pragmatically voted for Rodriguez...
...defeat may also have been the result of Republican complacency. While the party brought in George P. Bush, the President's nephew, whose mother is Mexican, to campaign for Bonilla, few other of the state's big Republican names helped out - largely because Bonilla was considered a sure winner. "Maybe it was hubris," said Masset. "We were caught at the starting gate, we fell asleep at the wheel...