Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fury and Tears. Although he had no journalistic experience, his breezy enthusiasm impressed WABC executives looking for someone to fill a vacant ethnic slot (he is half Puerto Rican, half Jewish). Rivera wasted little time on one-alarm fire assignments before digging into his own niche as the station's "slum-dope reporter." He made his name with a three-part report on the Drug Crisis in East Harlem, which gave names and faces to drug-abuse statistics with portraits of three heroin addicts. In 1972 he sneaked a camera crew into the Willowbrook State School for the mentally...
...What makes Cambridge an interesting place to live in is the mixture of all different types within the city--working class people and university types, and every conceivable ethnic group," Wasserman said...
...large stone walk-ways leading from the rivers, similar to those built by the Northmen in Iceland and Greenland. Those stones were pushed aside for highways in the 1940s and have never been dated. Perhaps this is a sinister plot to play with history perpetrated by a powerful Cambridge ethnic group, one that would rather celebrate Columbus...
...argument often presented to potential Harvard black students is that few spokesmen for black people graduate from Harvard. But, as Evans points out, "Harvard has never produced 'ethnic' leaders for any group: more Catholic-Irish leaders come from Boston College, Holy Cross, St. John's and Notre Dame than from Harvard, although there have long been Catholics at Harvard. Far more Southern white leaders come from Alabama, Texas, Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Virginia, and William and Mary than from Harvard. Is it any wonder then that Morehouse, Howard and other black colleges have produced more black leaders than Harvard...
...balance was held by self-styled populist Al Vellucci, who had supported control in the past. Vellucci loves to play to a crowd, or an issue. On the council floor, he will pace like a country lawyer, cross-examining witnesses and fellow councilors with a sarcasm tinged with ethnic pride. While the liberals complained about Danehy's attempt to split their coalition, Vellucci played coy, talking about the dilemma he faced deciding how to vote...