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...Traditional Foods" study break, sponsored by Hillel and Raza, "provides us with the chance to get together two of the groups that really don't meet [on campus]," said Pedro Orozco '96, the organizer on the Raza side of the event...
...millions who had almost nothing before the revolution, and after 34 years they are fiercely proud of the guarantees -- so rare in Latin America -- and are determined not to lose them. "There is no way you can take away the achievements of the revolution," says 35-year-old reformer Pedro Monreal. "They are installed on the hard disk of my generation." Cubans insist they will manage to keep these benefits and still revive their shattered economy...
Until recently, American history texts were resolutely Anglocentric, beginning the immigration story with the first successful English settlements -- at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 and Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts, in 1620. The British, in fact, were latecomers. In 1565 a convicted Spanish smuggler named Pedro Menendez de Aviles, leading a ragtag army of perhaps 1,500 that included blacksmiths and brewers as well as foot soldiers, built the first permanent European settlement on American soil at St. Augustine, Florida. (The ruins of Menendez's first fort were discovered only last summer.) Thirty-three years later, Juan de Onate established a colonial capital...
European directors like Bernardo Bertolucci and Pedro Almodovar are railing against their American colleagues' support of the GATT deal, which would remove European quotas for local movies. "There will be no European film industry by the year 2000," they claim. Could be -- if Hollywood keeps giving European moviegoers what they want and home-grown auteurs make art-house flops...
...fact most members of the Class of 1968 have not only come to terms with their experiences, but have been able to accomplish outstanding things. "What people [from my class] have done is really admirable," Hagerty says.Former Prime Minister of Peru PEDRO Q. BELTRAN receives an honorary Doctor of Laws at the 1968 Commencement...