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Summers plans to stop in Santiago, Chile and Sao Paulo, Brazil during his three-day trip. He will give a major speech in both cities and plans to visit with students, faculty, alums, government officials and other local leaders, according to Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs John H. Coatsworth...
Summers, who is scheduled to depart Cambridge Monday night and return Friday morning, plans to spend Tuesday in Santiago, and Wednesday and Thursday in Sao Paulo...
...Santiago Calatrava can't drive. Whereas this would be surprising for almost anybody over the age of, say, 16, it's a much bigger surprise when you consider that the Spanish-born Calatrava has revolutionized the design of the places we move through and along. In the scores of bridges, airports and train stations the architect has designed throughout Europe and more recently in the U.S., Calatrava has brought to the world of travel an incomparable high-tech lyricism. His structures speak plainly of engineering, of struts and cables, white concrete pylons and keen-edged glass louvers...
...them for more questionable purposes. "If you give them this type of equipment, it is not a police force anymore," says Peter van Tuijl of the Partnership for Governance Reform, an international organization helping to reform Indonesia's police force. "It blurs the distinction between police and military." Santiago Villaveces of the Asia Foundation, an NGO working on democracy, law reform and civil-society issues in Indonesia, says, "This is militarizing the police when they should be demilitarizing...
...World Tae Kwon Do championships in Maine, are in Boston for the day. Do they know what Harvard students really do to that statue? Juan Fernando’s eyebrows shoot up. “No toque!” he barks at the kids posing for pictures. Santiago, 15, would like to study electrical engineering at Harvard. “Is it hard?” he asks. “Do they give a lot of homework?” Clearly he was hoping for an answer other than...