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Florida Gov. Reuben Askew selected Janet Reno, Harvard Law School '63, to head the Dade County Attorney's Office in Miami, Fla. yesterday, making her the first woman to head the jurisdiction with the largest office staff in the South...
Just a subway stop from Harvard, the people of el barrio, the neighborhood, are playing out their roles in the largest wave of immigration in recent years, the wave of Latin Americans from Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Central and South America which has swelled the United States Spanish-speaking population to an estimated eight to 12 million people. They are repeating the drama which built this nation, the drama of the immigrant. Like those who came before, they are finding these shores of promise to hold a mixture of reward and tribulation...
Perhaps 70 to 80 per cent of Cambridge's Spanish-speaking Cubans and Dominicans form the next largest groups, followed by a smattering from most Central American and even some South American countries. While there are hazards in generalizing about Cambridge from information gathered on Boston Hispanics, such statistics are valuable as ballpark figures, given the lack of studies specifically concerning Cambridge. In Boston, according to the 1972 community development association study, 70 per cent of Hispanics speak little or no English, and 35 per cent are unemployed. Welfare recipients comprise 42 per cent of the population, 50 per cent...
Students in Tribe's constitutional law course, one of the largest courses in the Law School, have an eight-hour take-home exam that can be taken on either Thursday, Friday or Saturday...
...district court in Chicago will both approve the settlement and rule that it should be applied to all 93,000 car buyers across the country who got Chevrolet engines in other GM cars. In that event, the cost to GM would be about $40 million?one of the largest awards ever, if not the largest, in a consumer-protection case...