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...Latin America, it's created local HSM brands that don't compete with the American version but riff off its popularity with new movies tailored to the local market. This summer came the release of two Spanish-language feature films - High School Musical: El Desafio - one for the Mexican market, and the other for the Argentinian one. These franchises within franchises, says Diego Lerner, president of Disney Latin America, build "closer links with the communities we're aiming for and respect the local cultural environment." In Mexico, the hero plays soccer, not basketball, while his Argentinean counterpart plays rugby. Similar...
...Bloom added that his successor, former Mexican health minister Julio Frenk, who will take over the deanship in January, will have to increase the school’s fundraising efforts in the coming years to expand its financial aid program...
...since this past May, some of Alaska's gas could have wound up in domestic hands. San Diego-based Sempra Energy opened the first LNG terminal on the West Coast of North America. The Mexican facility, a $975 million project, is tied directly to the gas pipeline system that leads to California, Texas and Arizona...
...private colleges, hedge funds and Internet start-ups. Partly as a result, interracial marriage is way up, especially among college graduates. There were more than 3 million mixed-marriage couples in the U.S. in 2005, 10 times as many as in 1970. Author Richard Rodriguez, the son of Mexican-American immigrants, not long ago wrote that America's new national color is neither black nor white but brown...
...people respected Dionicio because he always respected them. He leaves behind a legacy of great optimism for the Mexican-American community. In his final years, he felt insulted by the onslaught of attacks on Mexicans by anti-immigrant bashers. But he stood firm in his belief that we would be strong enough to endure the attacks and would continue to make great contributions to this wonderful nation that he loved. Vaya con Dios, Don Dionicio...