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Candidates who have not yet received invitations include Gen. Alexander Haig, former Supreme Commander of NATO, Sen. Larry Pressler (R-S.D.) and Benjamin Fernandez, a chicano California businessman...
With the new agency a fait accompli, interest turned immediately to Carter's choice for department secretary. The good money is on former New Mexico Gov. Jerry Apodaca, a Chicano with a longtime interest in education, who just happened to be poking around Washington's education community this week...
...They might have been talking in Swahili." He made it through one year, however, and transferred into the Law School. Thrity years later, Lopez is still in and around Cambridge. He moved out to Los Angeles for a while, to practice law in the Chicano community and appear as a television lawyer. But Harvard lured him back. Lopez describes himself as a "writer and lecturer." Last year he offered a seminar at the Institute of Politics on "Chicano Political Development." Next year, Lopez says, he will be teaching a General Education course on the development of Hispanic communities in America...
...publications may cover an event, Thompson's "goddamn gibberish" will give it a flavor and texture that wouldn't otherwise get into print. Reading Thompson and no one else won't give readers a "full understanding" of what goes on during a Presidential election, a Super Bowl or a Chicano uprising in L.A. But neither will the calculated "uni-tone" of Time magazine or the caution--sometimes necessary but not always illuminating--of "objective" journalism. The Great Shark Hunt ensures that the "bad craziness" that a lot of people would like to forget will be preserved...
Lipsky is encouraged by the increase in the number of black applicants, but she is not ready to admit discouragement over dramatic decreases in other minority applications. By reclassifying hispanics to exclude those who are South American or have Spanish surnames but are not Puerto Rican or Chicano, Harvard registered a 40 per cent drop in hispanic applicants. But Lipsky says recruitment efforts this year may actually have increased the number of "true" hispanics, an increase the statistics mask. Similarly Native American applicants dropped because to qualify as Native American this year an applicant must satisfy National Bureau of Indian...