Word: alejandro
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India and the Philippines were evidently annoyed at being categorized as "partly free," and so came down against Freedom House as well. "We voted the way we did because we wanted to show our displeasure at the lack of objectivity of Freedom House," said Alejandro del Rosario, spokesman for the Philippines' U.N. delegation. "How can they say we are 'partly free'?" He said his country had been a full-fledged multiparty democracy since the 1986 election of Corazon Aquino as President. To justify the rating, the Freedom House report cites killings, torture and kidnappings in rural parts of the Philippines...
...holding them to a contract the Benedictines had signed 30 years ago with Hispavox Records, which EMI later bought out. That agreement entitled them to only a flat $1,500 per record, though a small royalty was added later. "The monks say they were paid legally," says musicologist Alejandro Masso, who produced their new album, "but they also say they could have been paid more elegantly." "Ridiculous," responds EMI executive Steve Murphy. He asserts that the monks have received "substantial" royalties in excess of $40,000, adding that Buruaga is not privy to details of the contract. "That," Masso retorts...
...have a lot of uncles and aunts," said Alejandro Sepulveda '98, whose mother is a first-generation Mexican-American, and whose father is a native of Mexico...
...Latinos in the United Status] have a history intertwined in the history of this country," says Alejandro Contreras '95, co-editor of Del Sur, a magazine for Harvard Latinos. "I was born in this country, and the country I identify with is this country...I can't identify with Argentina...
...three-year-old group promotes a better understanding of Mexican society and culture among members of the Harvard community, according to outgoing president Alejandro Ramirez Magana...