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Certain girls' names, Jasso points out, survive the Spanish-English crossing better than boys' names, since the a ending (Victoria, Cordelia, Diana, Maria) is popular in both languages, while the o ending for boys' names is not. A Spanish Marco becomes an Anglo Mark; Antonio similarly becomes Anthony, and Teodoro becomes Theodore. "If names exert an influence on their own," Jasso says, "then Hispanic girls will be more likely to assimilate, and to assimilate more quickly than boys...
Forum-attendee and Graduate School of Education graduate student Victoria Chao agreed that stories could have educational potential in an interview after the talk...
Megabank HSBC has been as much a part of Hong Kong history as Victoria Harbor, high tea at the Peninsula Hotel and martial-arts movies. Founded in 1865 as the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, HSBC backed some of city's most important businessmen, including tycoon Li Ka-shing, and remains Hong Kong's No. 1 bank. But for much of the past 20 years, HSBC has expended a lot of its energy striving to be more than an Asian institution. With major acquisitions in the U.K., the U.S. and elsewhere, HSBC grew into one of the world's largest...
...Chechnya, as do the two horses entered into the Spring Carnival. With Kadyrov's official income declaration of an $110,000 salary and a 36 square-meter apartment in Grozny, Kadyrov's penchant for racing has at least raised a few eyebrows in the Russian media. A spokesman for Victoria Races said the cost of sending Mourilyan to the Melbourne Cup alone is in the six figures. Kadyrov's spokesperson, Alvi Karimov, refused to comment on any of Kadyrov's racehorses or on Mourilyan's entry in the Melbourne Cup to TIME on Sept. 21. (Read "Killings of Russia...
...Irvine Anthropology Professor Victoria Bernal spoke passionately to about 125 students in the Social Science quad, saying "the beauty of the University of California is that that it is an elite intellectual institution, but it is not elitist. If there were huge problems with the University of California, that would be one thing. Instead, we are taking something that by all measures is a great success and tearing it down." Student leader Isaac Miller says the university community came together to "protest the de-funding of public education by the State of California and the crisis of priorities...