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...Latin America or thematic focus of Latinos. In addition, DRCLAS boasts the largest Internship Placement and Internship Grant program on campus, for students travelling to summer internships in Latin America. University President Lawrence H. Summers has just returned from a trip to Latin America during which he visited Sao Paulo, Brazil, site of a DRCLAS exchange program, and also Santiago, Chile, site of the DRCLAS Regional Office, the only university-wide regional office at Harvard. This should give you an idea of the importance of Latin America for the Harvard community. I hope to see more extensive coverage...
Born to a poor family, Lula received merely an eighth-grade education. He rose to prominence in Sao Paulo as a fiery labor-union leader and head of Brazil's leftist Workers Party. After losing three presidential races, he finally won in 2002 with a more centrist vision that many development experts see as a model that can be applied elsewhere. Lula's challenges are daunting. Brazil's economy is wheezing again this year, and angry voters around Latin America are protesting a decade of capitalist reforms. But he has staked out a distinct role. Says Eduardo Gamarra, director...
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...
While there will be no additional faculty in Sao Paulo, Summers will visit with rectors from a number of local universities and hold an approximately 30-person class for graduate students at schools involved in an exchange program with Harvard. Three of those students have studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
Coatsworth said the Sao Paulo portion of the visit was also included because the Rockefeller Center “has given top priority to the development of Brazilian studies at Harvard.” He added that this has begun through film series and encouraging faculty and student research...