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...major record companies have Latin offices in Miami, and dozens of Spanish-language magazines are based there. General Motors, Latin America's No. 2 automaker, moved its Latin headquarters from Sao Paulo to Miami two years ago. Disney moved its Latin American consumer-products office from Mexico City; Inter-Continental Hotels moved its base for the Americas down from New York; and Iberia Airlines left Los Angeles. Miami's success has been its ability to use its immigrant population to offer American products and business savvy in a Latin environment. "As the Western Hemisphere becomes more Hispanic, Miami has become...
Grace Yun, director of the New York City-based Inter-Relations Collaborative, describes this role-model "myth" as a "source of enormous concern." She deplores the idea that Asian Americans don't have any problems: "Thirty-six percent of the Vietnamese-American community in 1990 was below the poverty line. You see computers being advertised by little Asian geniuses. This is very damaging. One of the devastating by-products is anti-Asian violence...
...perform service ("Ask what you can do for your country") and then provided a vehicle for that service in the form of the Peace Corps. Clinton operated instead on the "if you build it they will come" assumption: Pass the program, and a national sense of community and inter-dependence will emerge...
These rules are part of the "dry punch" policy, which began in 1990 and grew into a 1991 agreement between the Inter-Club Graduate Council and Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. The policy was established, according to Epps, because drinking was getting out of hand at punch parties...
...unfair. Since 1989 the department has made three outstanding junior appointments. This shows that given the opportunity the department is capable of handling appointments with dispatch and excellent results. The decision on the senior appointment in linguistics was not assigned to the department. Rather, it was vested in an inter-departmental committee appointed by the dean, which, from what I have been able to discover, operated inefficiently and in the end failed to agree on a candidate. Responsibility for this failure cannot be laid at the department's door...