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...plight of Latin America's middle and lower classes is a radical reversal from the sunny days of the 1960s and early '70s, when the region's rapid economic growth offered the hope of broad-based prosperity. When the countries' heavy debt burdens triggered inflation and stagnation in the 1980s, most Latin American families began sliding rapidly into hardship. This year Mexico's annual inflation rate is running at 17% (down from 52% last year), Argentina's, 3,500% (up from 388%) and Brazil's, 1,600% (up from 934%). Perversely, the rich have helped perpetuate the economic malaise...
...clinical program in education terms," Clark says. "I don't judge the program's success or failure in terms of cases won or lost, but in the quality of training, and whether the students are really learning ethical responsibility and studying the plight of the poor...
...Noam Chomsky, another key speaker. Renowned in the academic world for his work in linguistics, Chomsky is also known for anti-Zionism bordering on anti-Semitism. Chomsky loudly defends the rights of those Palestinians living within Israeli-controlled borders, although he seems less concerned with the plight of the 60 percent of Palestinians who live under the brutal rule of Jordan's King Hussein. Chomsky has long denied the right of Israel to exist. Should this person's enthusiasm for linking Israel and South Africa be regarded as a legitimate academic pursuit...
...Committee chose him because Max [Kanevesky] knows intimately the plight of Belitsky," said Ivan J. Dominguez '91, also a committee co-chair. "We have always chosen someone who has a connection with a student here at Harvard...
Comparing the plight of Hispanics with that of Blacks, Raoul Yzaguirre, president of the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group, and currently an IOP fellow, said that the "legacy, history and struggles of Hispanics in this country are largely unknown by the American public...the media simply wasn't focused on the civil rights struggle of the Hispanic community...