Word: dominican
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Sandy R. Santana '97, president of the Dominican Students' Organization, agreed...
...been erroneously reported that Cubas is representing the boxers. But for the Cuban baseball players, he has come to stand for freedom and the major leagues--and millions of U.S. dollars. After he took two defecting pitchers, Osvaldo Fernandez and Livan Hernandez, to the Dominican Republic last winter to establish their free-agent status, they signed very sweet deals, with the San Francisco Giants and Florida Marlins respectively. Says Cubas: "The money has less to do with their defecting than their desire for freedom or their wish to play at the highest level of competition...
...ideological blinders at Harvard are even more disturbing. I have heard the CIA coup that replaced Guatemala's democratically-elected government with a despotic military junta in 1954--all for the benefit of U.S. business--described as an example of Cold War tensions. The U.S. invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965 is frequently discussed in the same manner. A teaching fellow for a class about economic development told me that he graded harshly a paper that I wrote about U.S. economic warfare against Nicaragua because I had not included a moral justification for such action. When I asked...
...Harvard doesn't have bureaucrats to understand a Dominican immigrant woman from the South Bronx. She just has to adjust and deal with it," she says. "It probably makes me a better person...
Only two Monroe graduates had ever gone on to Harvard before, in 1952 and 1956, "back when the Bronx was all white," Ramos says. Today, the school's population is predominantly Puerto Rican, Dominican and African-American...