Word: hispanicized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A party unsure of its mission, rallying around its President unethusiastically and telling the nation to vote for him primarily out of the fear of his oppenent, is hardly apt to inspire the electorate this fall. But whatever happenes in November, it should be a gross mistake to count out...
The candidate for President stood last week in a rubble-strewn lot in one of New York City's worst ghettos. Behind him, on the wall of a rundown tenement, was a one-word message of despair in orange paint: DECAY. On another nearby building was a scrawled reminder...
Alex Ramos was weaned on the mean streets of New York City's devastated South Bronx. They are part of his muscle, blood, bones, and his soul as well. In the torched gray wasteland where he lives, Ramos is a glowing ember. When he turns pro this September, he...
The city's public school system, with an enrollment that is 68% black and Hispanic, has cut back its already overworked teaching staffs and eliminated much needed guidance counselors and after-hours tutors-the kind of specialists who gave many black students added incentive to stay in school. Roughly...
"Dorothy," 36, a Chicago elementary school teacher, told school officials she had the flu for five days last month. In fact, she spent the time hiding at home reading The Tale of Genji, an 11th century Japanese novel of love and manners. Says she: "Some days I can't...