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No pocas afinidades nos brindan las vidas de Jaime Torres Bodet (1902-1974) y Alfonso Reyes (1889-1959). Su desempeno, cuando jovenes, en la administracion de la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; una temprana y feraz produccion literaria; la aficion de Francia; el rigor como norma sin excepciones; el aliento de publicaciones periodicas; amistades matritenses, parisinas y bonaerenses; la carrera diplomatica; la pertenencia a la Academia Mexicana (Reyes da la bienvenida a Torres Bodet) y El Colegio Nacional. Sitio privilegiado, espejo de tales afinidades, es su correspondencia. La...

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Las reflexiones de estos dos hombres, que en la política y en el ejercicio del poder parecen haberlo visto todo, se enfocan en esta serie de encuentros hacia un mismo punto: el horizonte. Uno es liberal, el otro socialista; uno defiende las razones del protocolo, el otro se ha encargado de dinamitar las formalidades de la autoridad; uno es colorado, el otro es de origen blanco; uno es traje y zapatos de suela, el otro, camisa leñadora y botas de trabajo. Los dos pasaron los 80 años de vida. Los dos fueron presidentes de la República Oriental del Uruguay y, por sus diferencias, son dos...

Annie Smith Peck is one of the most accomplished women of the twentieth century that you have never heard of. Peck was a scholar, educator, writer, lecturer, mountain climber, suffragist, and political activist. She was a feminist and an independent thinker who refused to let gender stereotypes stand in her way. Peck gained fame in 1895 when she first climbed the Matterhorn at the age of forty-five – not for her daring alpine feat, but because she climbed wearing pants. Fifteen years later, she was the first climber ever to conquer Mount Huascarán (21,831 feet) in Peru. In 1911, just...