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...strategy is to provide the same goods as the best bodegas but in spacious, sparkling showrooms that rival high-end Anglo supermarkets such as Trader Joe's or Whole Foods. "The big chains gave Gigante the opportunity to come in here," says Steven Soto, head of the L.A.-based Mexican-American Grocers Association, a trade group that represents some 18,000 Latino store managers and owners. "The chains didn't understand how to market to our community. But Gigante has done a lot to open their eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fresh from The Border | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

...says she felt lost in a place of Harvard’s size, and missed the proactive advising system at Exeter. It was only when Hernandez got involved with RAZA, the Mexican-American student group, that she began to feel at home. “I finally felt that there was a group of people that knew where I was coming from,” she says. “I felt I had found a group where I could belong...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Legacy Begins | 2/20/2003 | See Source »

...Council. As she puts it, “My identity as an ethnic person happened here.” Last year, Hernandez served as president of RAZA, and remains active in the Harvard Association Cultivating Inter-American Democracy (HACIA Democracy), a model government program for Latin American High School students. She tutors writing and Spanish at the Bureau of Study Counsel, is a Mexican-American representative for the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program, and is a member of the Race, Culture and Diversity Council for Winthrop House. Her involvement in the campaign for Latino and ethnic studies at Harvard grew...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Legacy Begins | 2/20/2003 | See Source »

...from the start: dubbing Berkeley Congresswoman Barbara Lee a "traitor" for casting the sole vote in the House against authorizing military force in response to the Sept. 11 attacks; calling for the bulldozing of People's Park, a local battleground of civil disobedience; describing the activities of a campus Mexican-American group as "Student Funded Bigotry and Hate." The February edition will celebrate Black History Month with an all-out assault on affirmative action. Says U.C. Berkeley political science professor Bruce Cain: "The right-wing kids come in with a chip on their shoulder. They're aware of being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Vigorous Voice from The Right--at Berkeley! | 2/3/2003 | See Source »

Zinn compared the war on terror to other wars in the past—the Spanish-American War, the Mexican-American War and the Vietnam War—that “purport to be one thing but are really something else.” Instead of being a war on terror, Zinn said the current war is motivated by American political, economic and psychological “expansionism...

Author: By Andrew P. Winerman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Zinn Calls U.S. Policies Ineffective, Immoral | 7/19/2002 | See Source »

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