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...potent moviemaking. While the U.S. industry was importing Latin Americans like Ricardo Montalban, Carmen Miranda, José Iturbi and Fernando Lamas, Mexican beauty Dolores del Rio left Hollywood and returned home to join such new stars as Cantinflas, Pedro Armend?riz, Mar?a Félix and Infante's friendly rival in the singing hunk sweepstakes, Jorge Negrete. Emilio "El Indio" Fern?ndez was directing movies that won international prizes, like the Cannes Palme d'Or. A renegade from Franco's Spain, the surrealist master Luis Buñuel, came to Mexico and made a string of startling social melodramas: Los Olvidados, Nazarin...
...Pedro, the proletarian man of honor, usually bears injustice bravely. Sometimes he volunteers for public censure, taking the rap for a crime of passion his sister committed in Las Islas Marias. Sometimes he's railroaded into jail by a scheming rival, as in Nosotros los pobres...! Only rarely, as in The Woman I Lost, does he take up arms against the corrupting power. On the run for an accidental killing the police think is murder, he becomes a Robin Hood of the countryside, reappropriating the money the landowners have stolen from the people...
...worn-out preceptors that now teach all freshman. And writing should not be forgotten after freshman year—if problems persist, so should teaching.The new FAS dean needs to seriously address Harvard’s failing undergraduate education, before we begin to lag even further behind rival schools. Amid territorial faculty departments, a large FAS deficit and a mire of Harvard bureaucracy, it will be up to the dean to bring forth reforms that will ensure the quality and success of the Harvard education for years to come...
...nine-second victory in its first heat over Georgetown, avenging a loss earlier in the season at the Class of 2004 Cup. In addition, the second varsity eight fought for a second-place finish in their heat, and the novice eight won the Grand Final of the competition, defeating rival Princeton by almost 12 seconds, coming in with a time of 7.02.7 to the Tigers’ 7.14.4.But somewhere between the first heats of the varsity eights and the novice’s triumph, the team hit a rough patch.Whether it was due to the fatigue, which naturally...
...Institute of Politics Director Jeanne Shaheen is the one trying to persuade out-of-work politicians to return to the podium. Now, national political leaders are courting her. Shaheen met recently with Democratic campaign leaders to discuss a possible 2008 run against Republican Sen. John E. Sununu, her former rival in an unsuccessful 2002 Senate bid, The New Hampshire Union Leader reported this week. If she decides to run, the race could immediately become one of the 2008 cycle’s marquee Senate races. But Shaheen, the former governor of New Hampshire who came to Harvard...