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Unlike Bennett, Cavazos is a strong advocate of bilingual education as a means of reducing the high dropout rate among Hispanic high school students...
...cover was not charging out high enough," Caples said...
Despite the promising number of volunteers, organizers are worried that the turnout will not be high enough, DeLancey said. "We are afraid that the [Harvard] student turnout will not be what we need because the event takes place during parents' weekend and right before midterms," she said...
...Hispanics have had a political folk hero lately, it has been bright and handsome mayor Henry Cisneros of San Antonio. So high had his star risen during four much admired terms in office that in 1984 Cisneros was considered a potential Democratic vice-presidential candidate. But last week the mayor, 41, took a dive off his pedestal into the sort of public mess that swallowed up Gary Hart. Cisneros confessed, in an off-the-record interview with columnist Paul Thompson, published by the San Antonio Express-News, that he has been entangled in a two-year love affair with...
...high in Manhattan's Rainbow Room, where troubles melt like lemon drops and everyone looks more handsome than they really are, Lee Iacocca is doing a passable fox-trot with his daughter. "It's great," he says of the chance to retrieve the old dances. "To me they never went away. We've just had a hiatus for 15 years." This ultimate nightclub reopened last year after a $20 million renovation, and now receives 1,000 calls a day for reservations. "It's what you wanted to have money to spend on," says Joe Baum, mastermind of the dazzling...