Word: rez
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...Hopefully within four years Harvard pep rallies will improve to the quality of those put on by state schools,” Alan Ramos ’09 said. “Yale sucks. The pep rally rocked my socks,” Philip L. Pérez ’09 said...
...course, once a collectivist not always a collectivist. Marcelo Surez-Orozco, a professor of globalization and education at New York University, has been following 400 families that immigrated to the U.S. from Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Many hailed from villages where the American culture of competition is alien, but once they got here, they changed fast...
...group, the immigrant children in his study are outperforming their U.S.-born peers. What's more, the adults are dramatically outperforming the immigrant families that came before them. "One hundred years ago, it took people two to three generations to achieve a middle-class standard of living," says Surez-Orozco. "Today they're getting there within a generation...
...Such a wide array of opinions and agendas is reflected in Time's list of the nation's 25 most influential Hispanics, who range from celebrities like J. Lo and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to the lesser-known labor activist Pablo Alvarado and art curator Mari Carmen Ram"rez. She says her job is to be an evangelist for Latino culture. With these 24 powerful Hispanics at her side, no wonder word is spreading fast...
...President," he said. "All charges are now refuted. Nothing remains in doubt." But even as he tried to put the matter behind him, his son Gerhard, 38, stirred up new embarrassment. At a news conference in Washington last week, Gerhard implied that Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal and Javier Prez de Cullar, the current U.N. Secretary-General, had accepted his father's explanation of his wartime record. Both Prez de Cullar and Wiesenthal denied that they had formed a final judgment about the case. Potentially graver damage to the candidate's prospects came last week when...