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...think that Latino studies is one of the areas that Harvard has yet to address but that affects many of us who live in the U.S. whether Latino or not,” wrote Maribel Hernandez, president of Harvard-Radcliffe RAZA, in an e-mail...
...Pitching prevailed in this Series, and the Diamondback All Star duo, Schilling and Johnson, accounted for the four wins, besting the best rotation in the American League: Andy Pettitte (0-2), Roger Clemens (0-0), Mike Mussina (0-0), and Orlando Hernandez (0-0). And, had manager Bob Brenly not given Schilling the hook too early in Game 3, a seventh game might not have been necessary...
When 16-year-old Rene Hernandez traveled from Cuba to the U.S. in the Mariel boatlift in 1980, his first hope was that he and his family would not drown or be attacked by sharks. Inspired by the plight of his father, a political prisoner, he decided to become a lawyer, although most people told him his English would never be good enough. But a corporate lawyer? That was even more farfetched. "Minority lawyers tend to shy away from the corporate world," Hernandez says. "We don't have the road map or the playbooks. And we feel corporations...
There were 14.6 million Hispanics in the U.S. when Hernandez arrived. Now there are more than 35 million. By the time his three-year-old daughter joins the work force, the Latino population will have almost doubled again, to account for close to a fifth of the U.S. population. It's a group with $500 billion a year in buying power, but one that is changing rapidly. While Mexicans remain the majority, at 58%, the number of immigrants coming from other Central and South American countries grows each year. Increasingly, they are spreading into states, such as Iowa, that never...
...nosy tourists. Tzotzil Indians who have broken off from the Mexican government, they patiently answered questions about their village of rutted streets and shuttered shops, donning ski masks and bandannas only when it came to picture taking. "As indigenous people, we are threatened and exploited," said council president Lucas Hernandez Ruiz. "We are happy you have come from afar to witness our resistance...