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...beginning of the Reagan Administration, Negroponte snagged what seemed to be a plum assignment in Honduras. As the base for U.S.-backed contra rebels fighting the Sandinistas in neighboring Nicaragua, Honduras was vital to Washington's anti-communist policies in Central America. But if Negroponte and his wife hadn't ended up adopting five Honduran children, he would probably just as soon have forgotten his tenure there. The posting proved to be the black mark in his career. He was accused of turning a blind eye to human-rights abuses by the Honduran government; he says he saw no evidence...
North Carolina, in fact, suddenly had the highest Hispanic growth rate in the U.S. One arrival was Carlos Medina, 55, who arrived 10 years ago from Nicaragua via Miami. "In 1983 U.S. bishops prophesied in a pastoral letter that Hispanic people would revive, maybe even save, the church in this country," says Medina, who owns a painting company in Charlotte and is a deacon at Our Lady of the Assumption, where he assists the priest with the popular Spanish-language Masses. "I think it came true...
...across lines of political conflict prompted by a natural disaster have eased the climate between hostile nations - most recently in the help sent by Greece to Turkey in the wake of killer earthquakes. But there are also historical examples, such as the social upheavals that followed massive earthquakes in Nicaragua in 1973, in which natural disasters have sharpened conflict, particularly when aggrieved parties believe there is a bias in the distribution of relief aid. Already there are signs of such a dynamic emerging in Aceh, with some villagers accusing the Indonesian military of directing aid to families of soldiers...
...dangerous ground. In the first place, I must point out that many of the works of VES faculty are socially oriented and immensely powerful. Hooker Professor of Visual Arts Alfred Guzzetti and Arnheim Lecturer on Filmmaking Robb Moss have both made breathtaking films about, respectively, violent insurrection in Nicaragua and the decay of idealism in an aging generation. Even worse, my request for a discussion of broader social meaning in our art-making practice raises ugly specters of indoctrination. Stephen Prina was especially blunt in response to questions about professors’ potential role in shaping students’ feelings...
...world has heard of. In remote southern Lebanon this summer, I told the family who was roasting some kebabs for my friends and me that I was from Harvard. A few minutes later, it seemed like the whole town had emptied out to meet me. Last spring break in Nicaragua, my Harvard Habitat for Humanity group made the rounds in Rivas, a medium-sized city in the south-east of the country. The response I got never varied: “From Harvard? Smart...