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...America.FROM THE LAB TO THE DANCE CLUBKatherine R. Clapham ’08, a biochemistry concentrator, traveled to Rosario, Argentina. Working in a lab suggested to her by a Harvard professor, she also found a non-Harvard affiliated program through the OIP that allowed her to take classes in Spanish and Argentinian art and literature. While living with her host family, Clapham also took lessons in tango and squash. “I wanted to live somewhere different, somewhere that took me out of my comfort zone,” Clapham says. “I wanted to improve...
...salted potato chips and set in front of me in the bar room of the Hotel Majestic in Barcelona. It was the summer before my senior year and I was celebrating the end of my 10-week magazine internship in New York with a week spent gloriously feasting on Spanish delicacies—salty chorizo and ripe pan con tomato, crispy croquettes and hot patatas bravas, washed down with sugary shots of melacoton...
When Harvard TEATRO!’s production of “Tres sombreros de copa” (“Three Top Hats”) premieres this Friday, it will mark the Spanish play’s first performance in its original language in the United States. But Spain isn’t the only faraway place on the mind of the play’s director: Verónica Rodriguez Ballasteros, a Madrid native, hopes to introduce Harvard audiences to her figurative homeland as well as her literal one.“The need to direct this play...
...treat them. (The FARC refuses visits by Red Cross medical teams.) Pinchao, 37, says Stansell taught him how to swim during river-bathing sessions - a skill that later helped him escape. Stansell also tries to keep the hostages' spirits up. "Keith even learned how to tell jokes in Spanish," he recalls. Like Stansell, Gonsalves and Howes have children in the U.S. Howes, from Massachusetts, has eased his depression by adopting a stray dog. Gonsalves, of Connecticut, spends his days lifting makeshift weights and reading a Spanish Bible. The men cannot receive letters but do hear news of their families broadcast...
...pair has just had their web site translated into Spanish and created a flyer that reads, "Carne Asada Is Not a Crime," which they're asking taco lovers to print and post in their neighborhoods. "Taco trucks are such a vibrant part of the landscape of L.A.," says Rutherford. "They're messing with the free market." There's talk of grander plans, too, like a citywide "taco truck night," in which Angelenos will be encouraged to eat a meal at a taco truck in a show of solidarity...