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...buying power, education and health. Their image in the media-if it appeared at all-was generally relegated to gardeners, maids and barrio gangsters. When sales of salsa overtook ketchup in the early 1990s only Heinz seemed to care. Then came Ricky Martin and his bilingual anthem to "Living La Vida Loca." The song redefined urban pop and Latinos, almost overnight, became cool...
BATON ROUGE, La.—The campus of Louisiana State University (LSU) has morphed from a picturesque academic haven to a full-blown refugee center this week in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina...
Instead, the volunteer promised to ferry the family to her home in Iota, La. She was living in her daughter’s apartment in Baton Rouge. “There’s no power but you can all be together,” she said...
Rounding out the slate of challengers is James Condit, a Libertarian; Andre Green, a 24-year-old Republican; Robert Hall, Sr.; Bill Hees, a second Libertarian; Robert La Trémouille, a longtime Cantabrigian who frequently denounces environmental destruction in the city; and Sam Siedel, an urban planner and 2001 graduate of the Design School...
Maybe it’s an ingrained cultural attitude à la Max Weber’s “Protestant Ethic,” or maybe social pressures are demanding we maintain an ever-escalating lifestyle. Betrand Russell once commented that “one of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.” Perhaps we’re all just going crazy...