With the free agency of the three pitchers, first basemanPete Alonso, designated hitterJ.D. Martinez, outfielderHarrison Baderand the ending of payments onJustin Verlander‘s andMax Scherzer‘s salaries, the Mets have shaved around $150 million off their payroll from last season. They remain am...
Among other interesting data of note, he comments on the theory that Santa Muerte is a syncreticism of Catholicism with Mictlancihuatl (aka Mictecacihuatl), the pre-Columbian consort of Mictlantecuhtli and Queen of the Dead. (Her names translate literally as “Lady of the Land of the Dead...
Thus, General Self-Concept was found to be distinct from, but correlated with Academic Self-Concept and was positioned at the apex of the proposed hierarchy as being the global representation of all the previously mentioned self concept subsets. A fourth feature of self concept is that general ...
• Voices of New York wrote up about the Las Comadres Para Las Americas writer’s conference last month, with some interesting insights about Latinos in publishing. • Want a blog that features the poetry of Pablo Neruda with pictures of cats? Here you go. Also: • Celebrating birthdays...
Or maybe I was a unknowing pioneer in my city, a stray Latino who was a harbinger of a more diverse, multicultural future. I’d like to think that this last option is the truth, and that the class of ’08 has so many Hispanics that the place is up to five categories of names. ...
the custody of the Sheriff’s office. What is inexplicable is that the pregnant mother did not receive the minimally humane, compassionate or Christian treatment to alleviate the hardships of the arrest at least during the last few hours before the delivery. Most deplorable was what theNYTreports...
Without any doubt, it can be said that in the past century Spain and the countries of South America have been a world apart, lagging far behind the mainstream Western world. It includes a number of names and facts about the early translation of Dewey's works in Spain, Chile, Cuba, ...
About 200 attendees were expected at a regional event last month sponsored by the San Francisco and San Jose chapters of NSHMBA. Schools are turning to meetings like these to boost the percentage of underrepresented minority students, now about 10% nationwide. One reason for the push is that ...
The City Paper reported in this articlethat the filmOur Brand Is Crisispassed through Nashville last week. It features James Carville's political strategy firm in Bolivia, where meaningless slogans wield extraordinary power. "Whether you view yourself on the left, right or in the middle, there ...
“Because ofCOVIDI never got a chance to defend my 2019 title, and even though I decided not to come last year, I came with the mentality that, well, nobody beat me in the last two years, so they are going to have to beat me again,” Rahm said. ...