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...Amor Prohibido (Forbidden Love), from her most recent album, has sold 400,000 copies in the U.S. and abroad. Most of her songs are a form of dance pop that combines Top 40 melodies with the rhythms of Colombian cumbia and traditional Texas conjunto-the border music influenced by Czech and German polkas, featuring accordions and bajo sexto guitars. Selena's lyrics, which were often written in English and then translated into Spanish, are straightforward and simple. At the time of her death, Selena was working on her first English- language record, one that many felt would help her cross...
Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian PhilologyMichael S. Flier, who teaches the linguistics ofthe Czech language, agreed...
When Czechoslovakia split into the CzechRepublic and Slovakia, Havel became president ofthe Czech Republic...
Vaclav Havel, the president of the Czech Republic and a dissident whose writings helped bring about the downfall of a Communist regime, will deliver the principal address at Harvard's 344th Commencement on June 8, University officials confirmed yesterday...
Thomas, who teaches a unit on Havel'sliterature in Slavic 130b, said Havel might speakon any number of themes. Among those he mentionedare the historical and philosophical connectionsbetween the Untied States and the Czech Republicand how the 17th century Czech playwrightComenius, who was once offered the presidency ofHarvard, influenced western education...