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...Edward James Olmos. In the 1997 biopic Selena, there is an eye-rolling Latino Studies 101 moment in which Olmos, playing Selena's dad, talks about how difficult it is to ride the divide between Latino and American in the United States. "We gotta know about John Wayne and Pedro Infante," he huffs. "We gotta know about Frank Sinatra and Agustin Lara. We gotta know about Oprah and Cristina." Update: We gotta know about the Jonas Brothers and RBD. In other words, we gotta be wise to the ways of more than one culture. (Watch TIME's video "Sonia Sotomayor...
...shocked by the sight of women not covered from head to toe and poor Norini who was "so scared" of coming into contact with nonhalal products. This is what happens when the Middle Ages come to the 21st century, when superstition is taken seriously and made respectable. Pedro Pinheiro de Almeida, ATHLONE, IRELAND...
Another honoree is Academy Award winning director and screenwriter Pedro Almodóvar, who will receive a doctorate of arts degree...
...task in San Pedro Sula is to find a compromise between proposals put forth in recent days by Nicaragua and Honduras, whose leftist governments are calling for the immediate lifting of the suspension, and the Obama Administration, which says now that it too supports readmitting Cuba but only if Havana takes "the concrete steps necessary to meet those [democratic] principles," Clinton told Congress recently. On Sunday, ahead of the OAS gathering, State Department officials reportedly confirmed that Cuba had accepted Washington's recent offer to restart talks on legal immigration and mail service, talks that were suspended by the Bush...
...Castro and his brother, former President Fidel Castro, insist they won't accept any conditions. "We do not wish to be part of" the OAS, Fidel wrote this month, calling its criticism of Cuba's human-rights record "pure garbage." What the OAS should decide in San Pedro Sula, he added, "is to expel the U.S. and start from scratch with a new organization that will defend the interests of Latin America and the Caribbean." It's most likely a disingenuous stance - it's hard to imagine Cuba not re-entering the OAS if its members do vote to rescind...