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...political violence aimed at the poor, warned John M. Sheffield II ’09, during a presentation on police brutality in South America yesterday evening. The discussion focused on the two summers Sheffield spent in Buenos Aires, working with the Argentinean human rights group La Liga Argentina por los Derechos del Hombre, as well as researching his thesis there. Sheffield, who is an undergraduate associate and research fellow at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, emphasized how “political polarization” between the rich and the poor in Buenos Aires also facilitated police...
...achieve that succulent victory, Step Brothers says, is by singing the Andrea Bocelli Por Ti Volare, accompanied by a drum solo. Even a grump has to admit it. That made me laugh...
...international economic juggernaut. It's a quintessentially capitalist solution befitting a quintessentially capitalist city. Need to grow to keep pace with competitors? Find a merger partner. "I think a closer relationship with the mainland is inevitable and by now is accepted by both sides," says Shiu Sin-por, a member of the Hong Kong government's Central Policy Unit...
That's why Chávez seems less than ruffled at being told by King Juan Carlos, "Por qué no te callas?" - Why don't you shut up? - over the weekend at the Ibero-American Summit of Iberian and Latin American leaders in Santiago, Chile. The king got fed up when the Venezuelan firebrand went on one of his rants and repeatedly accused former Spanish Prime Minister José MariaAznar of being a "fascist" who had supported a 2002 coup attempt against Chávez. Chávez later spun Juan Carlos' outburst as a monarchical affront to democracy...
...Infante releases, a cover sticker reads: "Por PRIMERA VEZ EN DVD EN EE. UU.!" (For the first time ever on DVD in the U.S.!) That's the first hint that this collection is aimed primarily at those Mexican-Americans who already know Infante as a legend or a loving memory -though it's available at amazon.com and, I'm assured, at Blockbuster and 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...