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...immigrant nation. Integrating new arrivals is a Socialist priority, but many immigrants don't support the party's progressive family policies. Ana Maria Vinazza says that in the decade since she arrived from Peru, "the Spanish family has changed for the worse." Beyond her opposition to gay marriage, and concern with the loss of religious values, she sees too many Spaniards indulging the young. "Parents give children too much. You have to earn what you get in life," she says, seated around a table with her 14-year-old daughter and 19-year...
...pick the students who will be reviewing it,” wrote Alyssa Colbert ’10, a Council representative from Winthrop House. “The selection of delegates should absolutely occur independently because the Committee must be autonomous.”Another issue that delegates expressed concern about was the application deadline, which was initially last Friday, and whether it would give students enough time to decide to apply, when the Council didn’t start advertising the application until the middle of last week.The UC ultimately decided to allay these worries by extending...
...these economic variables can work [to combat inflation]," says Orlando Ochoa, an economist and opposition sympathizer. "However, if you add an aggressive political speech [that threatens] private property... then things become worse, because the private sector becomes reluctant to invest and increase capacity." Indeed, business associations have already expressed concern that recent changes to the Law of Hoarding, Speculation and Boycotting could make it easier for the government to expropriate food-related businesses...
...exist at Harvard. The task force, called the Alcohol Coalition Committee, will report its findings in May, and has hosted two events to solicit student input during the past month. Another event will take place this Friday. The move to study a potential new alcohol policy comes amid increased concern about alcohol abuse by undergraduates. In October, Princeton’s administration instructed the university’s security staff to patrol dormitory hallways on Thursday and Saturday nights with an eye toward cracking down on alcohol violations. At the same time, the university announced new guidelines—that...
...Rubio founded divorcioexpress.com, a website that, for under $600, lets partners seal an uncontested divorce via the Internet. "We facilitate about 100 divorces a month," he says. "But we're not promoting divorce, just making it more accessible." Like him, sociologist Inés Alberdi sees little grounds for concern. "The number of divorces may have climbed, but the number of separations has decreased by almost the same amount," she says. "Before, when it came to divorce, Spain had very strange practices. Now we're more like other countries in Europe...