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...even a prosperous future presents knotty challenges. In the course of just two generations, Spain's economic expansion has turned it from an emigrant to an immigrant nation. Integrating new arrivals is a Socialist priority, but many immigrants don't support the party's progressive family policies. Ana Maria Vinazza says that in the decade since she arrived from Peru, "the Spanish family has changed for the worse." Beyond her opposition to gay marriage, and concern with the loss of religious values, she sees too many Spaniards indulging the young. "Parents give children too much. You have to earn what...
Carrasco represents a new twist on what family now means in this once rigidly traditional Catholic land. But gay marriage and adoption rights are only the most recent and controversial changes in a nation that has undergone an epochal shift since sloughing off the stifling certainties of dictatorship a mere generation ago. Under Francisco Franco's Catholic-inspired, military-enforced rule, which lasted until 1975, the Spanish family was the iconic, idealized centerpiece of society. That homogeneous model is now being supplanted by a mosaic of family types. Spanish families are ever more urban and transient, and ever less grounded...
Harvard’s $34.9-billion endowment is the largest in the nation, though Princeton University—with $15.8 billion—has a larger endowment-per-student ratio...
...isn’t just the offense that has seen marked improvement. After coming back to earth following his best-in-the-nation start to the season, sophomore goaltender Kyle Richter has returned to his old, impenetrable form, stopping 53 shots and surrendering just two scores last weekend as he crept back to No. 12 in the country in save percentage. From the net out, the 2007-08 Crimson has never looked better...
...week routine. You meet, you shake hands, you ask the usual questions about concentrations, dorms, and roommates. Inevitably, someone asks: where are you from? For some students, the answer is complicated.When Melusi A. Dlamini ’10 tells people that he’s from Swaziland, a small nation between South Africa and Mozambique, he’s lucky if they even know the continent he’s from. “Every once in a while,” he says, “though not too often, someone will ask: ‘Is that like...