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...Americans and Argentine Americans may all speak the same language, but many wouldn't dream of standing under the same cultural umbrella. A fair number of U.S.-born Hispanics don't speak Spanish, and many others have little or no European blood. Indeed, the category Hispanic is a gringo construct-first used by the U.S. Census Bureau in 1980-and the only one based on culture and language instead of race. That dubious distinction frustrates some Hispanics, who believe they belong to a separate race, the product of an epic Latin American miscegenation of Iberian, Native American and African heritage...
Starting this fall, College students will use the online shopping tool to automatically construct drafts of their study cards. When they finalize their schedules, students can print an official study card—the Registrar will contribute $1 to each student’s printing budget for the cards—and collect the required signatures from faculty and advisers on the printed form. Kane said that the process will also eliminate “bubble trouble,” the deluge of enrollment errors which regularly plagued the Registrar’s office after study cards were collected...
...biggest political project had fallen apart during this same period. Throughout what eventually turned out to be four terms in the state legislature, he had championed government support for a series of public works to construct bridges, roads and canals so that people in rural areas could bring produce to market. He believed, he later said, that the "leading object" of government was to "lift artificial weights from all shoulders--to clear the path of laudable pursuit for all--to afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life." When a depression hit the state...
...music and comedy performances, news, sports and celebrity gossip, plus exclusive content streamed live and on-demand (Aolmusic.com, for example, will webcast live on July 2 the Live 8 concert series and keep the programs in the archive for six weeks.) A new My AOL feature will let users construct a personalized home page, which, like My Yahoo, can include RSS feeds...
...city's upsurge in violence. First, veteran gang members jailed a decade ago during the crack epidemic are getting out of prison--and returning to reinfect their neighborhood with violent habits hardened and reinforced in prison. "The next generation of gang homicides is going to have a different construct [from the crack epidemic]," says Jack Riley, director of the criminal-justice program at Rand Corp. His research points to returning felons as a major reason for the spike in shootings across Los Angeles. "Locals in South Central and East L.A. think it is people returning from prison and trying...