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...facts. Mr. Gonzalez is one of the most dedicated and hardest-working people I have ever met at Harvard University, and that is an observation in which I include administrators, faculty, and students. He loves this place and feels honored to work here. He is a legal immigrant from El Salvador, a quiet man, and not at all one who would conceivably pose a threat to the safety or even serenity of the band invited here to help undergraduates “reclaim the Yard...
...what began seven years ago as an occasional class has turned into a semiweekly event often sold out a month ahead in high season, from December to March. Across town, chef Iliana de la Vega has had similar success with the courses she offers at her acclaimed restaurant El Naranjo...
...world is witnessing a gradual “realignment of economic power” in the face of unprecedented global imbalances that defy textbook explanations, said Harvard’s endowment chief yesterday in his first appearance before students. Mohamed A. El-Erian, the new chief executive of the Harvard Management Company (HMC), addressed a friendly crowd of roughly 100 students for about an hour in a speech sponsored by the Harvard International Business Club and the Harvard Society of Arab Students in Boylston Hall’s Fong Auditorium. The dialogue played to El-Erian’s strengths...
...being productive." In Cicero, Ill., a mostly Hispanic suburb of Chicago, the usually hectic downtown area was eerily desolate as marchers of all ages joined an estimated 300,000 people in the Windy City, who chanted, "Today we march, tomorrow we vote." Jose Torres, owner of the popular El Meson Mexican Restaurant in Cicero, who marched with his family and 18 employees, said he gave up over $3000 in revenue by closing on Monday, but that the sacrifice was worth it. "This country has given me a lot of opportunities," says Torres, who also paid his workers...
...Some workers took the day off without permission. Jose Cruz, who is from El Salvador, told the Associated Press that he was willing to lose his construction job in Homestead, Fla., in order to attend the rally there. "If I lose my job, it's worth it," he said. "It's worth losing several jobs to get my papers." Some businesses that employ large numbers of immigrants, however, reported little absenteeism. One of the nation's largest poultry producers, Gold Kist in Georgia, reported that only 400 of its 16,000 workers, half of whom are immigrants from Latin America...