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Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna’s speech, titled “Development and Democracy in Latin America: The Dominican Example,” proceeded without turbulence, and students who attended a private luncheon with the president beforehand said that it, too, was calm...
...paid for the privilege: roughly 10% of the film's budget, it is now known, comes from the pockets of taxpayers in the city and its region, Catalonia. "It's not just the money, and we don't have any problem with the movie," says Alberto Fernández of the opposition conservative Popular Party. "It's the attitude the city government has toward Allen. They give him privileges as if he were a visiting dignitary or head of state, while they don't treat Spanish and Catalan movie projects that...
...would give anything to not be standing here today,” he added.Also at yesterday’s meeting, five professors were honored with Harvard College Professorships, given to professors for recognition of undergraduate teaching: Friend Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Luis Fernández-Cifuentes, Putnam Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology David A. Haig, Jayne Professor of Government Jennifer L. Hochschild, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology David R. Liu ’94, and Professor of Sociology Peter V. Marsden.Glenda R. Carpio, assistant professor of African and African American studies, and Alison F. Frank, assistant...
...other large stores. Those of us who are linguistically impaired can get English subtitles for the movies; but the extras are in Spanish only. Also, the movies' visual quality ranges from mediocre to muddy. I've seen TV prints of Mexican films from the same period, like Fernández; La Perla and Maria Candelaria, and they gleam. But Las Islas Marias, the Infante-Fernández collaboration in the new collection (and shot, like the other two, by the great cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa), looks like a faded dupe...
...Kennedy administration should have capitalized on three secret diplomatic encounters with Cuban officials in the 1960s, which might have sidestepped the “dead-end” policy of embargo, esteemed Cuban historian Rafael M. Hernández argued last night during a presentation at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. The Kennedy visiting professor told a crowd of about 40 scholars and students that the three covert meetings could have matured into a more fruitful diplomatic relationship between the two countries. “The embargo became central in U.S. policy towards Cuba...