Describes the content areas and types of questions on the advanced placement Latin tests and gives the complete multiple choice section (questions and answers) from the 1980 test. (EKN)

Describes the activities and roles of women in El Salvador and Nicaragua, both historically and at present. (GC)

Discusses need for more teacher training in the classics. Believes the future of classicists depends on continued existence of secondary level programs. Believes colleges need to take Latin teacher training programs more seriously. (BK)

Discusses history of various Central American musical instruments, how the instruments were used then, and how they are used now. Much Indian music today serves to bolster Indian rights, express community pride, and serves as a badge of otherness. (AN)

For over 400 years, Hispanic psychologists have been making significant contributions to the development of psychology as a science and to its application in solving social problems. Work by Hispanics in Spain, Latin America, and the U.S. is reported chronologically in a Hispanic perspective of the history of psychology. (SB)

Documents some of the linguistic changes brought about in the Roman Catholic Church in the United States as a result of the ecumenical movement and modernization. Available from the University of Alabama Press, Periodicals Department, P.O. Box 2877, University, Alabama 35486. (AM)

This thematic section includes two articles: "Women Lawyers: Career Issues and Challenges" (Jacobs) and "Ethnicity and Inclusion into the Legal Profession: The Latin American Experience" (Cheek). (JOW)

Studies whether Latin or French as a foreign curricular language is a better preparation for learning Spanish. Participants who had learned French at school made markedly fewer grammar errors and slightly fewer vocabulary errors in the Spanish test that participants who had learned Latin. Concludes that knowledge of Latin is probably not an…

The evolution of the Latin "teneo venio" to the Spanish "tengo vengo" is analyzed, including Menendez Pidal's influential treatment of the problem and some recent explanations. The hypothesis that loss of flexional yod was the fundamental cause of analogical structuring is reviewed, and a new hypothesis is proposed. (Contains 30 references.)…

Highlights numerous Hispanic fiction writers who are beginning to experience popularity. Describes Hispanic genre such as "magic realism" in which real action is tinged with dreamlike surrealism. Discusses Hispanic writers' experiences with small independent presses as well as major publishers. Expresses such concerns as patronization and the lack…

Investigates relations between economic hardship, coping, and family relationships in African-American, Latino, and Euro-American families. Results indicate similarities in the families' experiences of economic distress, yet significant differences in the overall pattern of relations among the three ethnic groups. (Author/MKA)

Recasts ethnography not as the best method, but rather a strategic choice for mojado (illegal Mexican and Latino immigrant) researchers, suggesting that critical ethnography cannot be ultimately justified, for it recreates both center and border as it wishes to speak for people of color. The paper creates a postcritical ethnography for survival of…

This article reviews a high quality Internet site called The Perseus Project, which serves as a remarkable entry page to the exploration of Greek, Latin, and the ancient classical world. (Author/VWL)

Suggests an archaeology of the public debate versus the private one in Brazil through analysis of the reactionary speech of a religious leader, Dom Jose Mauricio da Rocha, which produced innumerable representations of the Brazilian Empire. (PA)

Describes the design of a stemming algorithm for searching Latin text databases. The algorithm uses a longest-match approach with some recoding but differs from most stemmers in its use of two separate suffix dictionaries for processing query and database words that enables users to pursue specific searches for single grammatical forms of words.…