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RAZA's Cinco de Mayo dinner is the focal point of its social calendar, serving as a holiday celebration and a farewell to seniors. RAZA hosts study breaks with other ethnic groups and runs a movie night...
...center of the Caribbean drug trade--the "new Miami"--is Puerto Rico. "Since 1990 Puerto Rico has been the focal point for the exportation of cocaine to the mainland from the Caribbean," says Felix Jimenez, who heads the DEA's office there. The island's status as a U.S. commonwealth offers traffickers an extraordinary advantage, since passengers and cargo undergo only perfunctory customs checks to enter the U.S. mainland. Once a shipment of cocaine is smuggled onto the island, it can easily be relayed to American cities...
Both were deteriorating, inactive buildings in central locations. After being renovated, both will become focal points full of lively interaction, he says...
While some may worry about the loss of the athletic community's social focal point, most athletes are most concerned about completing their workout in the crowded confines of the Gordon Track and Tennis Center, which some have likened to a fishbowl. The new weight room is approximately a fifth the size of Carey Cage and remains dangerously crowded with equipment and people during the peak team practice times...
...From the undergraduates' perspective, academic tutors may increase academic engagement for some, but only on the margin," says Assistant Professor of Government Andrew M. Moravcsik. "What really matters is what happens in the classroom--a focal point for reform, in my view, far more important than the housing system...