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...getting more of them, from directions he never could have anticipated. Last year the Spanish multinational BBVA raised some $300 million to invest in microfinance, then reached across the Atlantic to snap up two Peruvian firms. "Everyone wants to do this now," says Llosa. "And it's not only Peru. This change is everywhere. Everywhere microfinance is working, it's happening...
...pencil in the Spanish for the semis. Just hope they get there. "Spain is the anti-Germany," says Keller, who played in La Liga for Rayo Vallecano. "Spain will do everything possible to not get into the final." The problem, says Reyna, is that Spain would rather win a 5-3 goal fest than grind it out 1-0 like the Italians. Yet Spain's game, says Keller, "is the style of game that everybody wants to see. Everybody has respect for Sweden. But what do you want to watch?" As a goalkeeper, Keller doesn't want to watch Cristiano...
...reflect, “Well, if I’m struggling I’m doing something right” and recognized a tone totally contrary to everything I thought I was. To the extent that I had inherited a culture, nowhere in my very hybrid Catholic-Jewish Asian-Spanish-Eastern European parentage was there even a hint of the kind of Puritanism that values “sticking it out” above all else. More importantly, the sentiment had never guided my decisions in high school, where I wasn’t ashamed to take steps to make...
...said is painfully obvious. No one thinks they work just to work, because no one wants to believe they’ve become the embodiment of the Protestant Ethic or the Spirit of Capitalism. But the truth is that even the most laid-back socialist-leaning Catholic-Jewish Asian-Spanish-Eastern Europeans among us have internalized some of those principles. Until I gave them up last summer, that...
...adapted from Historical Study B-06—will probe why institutionalized violence was so popular in ancient Rome. Romance languages and literature professor Doris Sommer’s Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 13: “Cultural Agents”—formerly Spanish 280— was also approved. It will include a “Social Agents Fair” where students meet local change artists. English Department Chair James T. Engell ’73 will teach Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 15: “Elements of Rhetoric”—formerly English...