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Asian-Americans comprised 16.2 percent of admitted students. Mexican-Americans comprised 3.6 percent, Puerto Ricans comprised 1.5 percent and Hispanic-Americans from other countries in Latin American and South America comprised 3.7 percent. American Indians comprised 1 percent of the admitted pool...
Lopez is the first major-network sitcom in years to feature a Latino family, even as Hispanics have grown to about an eighth of the U.S. population. The show subtly represents the variety of Latin culture--for instance, George is Mexican and his wife Angie (Constance Marie) is Cuban. But it also brings a different kind of diversity to TV. Few sitcoms since Roseanne have taken a raw, personal look at a working-class family and its psychological baggage. Most family comedies today avoid dark themes or sublimate them, as in Everybody Loves Raymond's passive-aggressive squabbles. Lopez...
...Playing for their national team, it's not unusual to have an entire nation watching their every move, shot and pass," observes Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, who has used foreign players like the Mavs' Mexican forward Eduardo Najera to market the team to Hispanic fans in Texas...
...Gruet Winery's New Mexican sparkling wines, for example, won medals last July at the International Wine and Spirits Competition in London. Bubblies from L. Mawby Vineyards in Michigan and Westport Rivers Vineyard in Massachusetts sparkle...
...Meirelles and K?tia Lund's City of God, the brutally realistic saga of a Rio de Janeiro favela, or slum, got a big publicity boost after it opened last summer, when real drug gangs swept out of Rio's favelas and briefly shut down posh neighborhoods like Copacabana. And Mexican director Carlos Carrera's The Crime of Father Amaro, the taboo-busting story of a Roman Catholic priest who impregnates an adoring teen-age girl, hit theaters during the throes of last year's clerical sexual abuse scandals. It is now Mexico's biggest home-grown box-office hit ever...