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...number of Asian-American applicants is upfive percent over last year; black applicants areup six percent. Mexican-American and Puerto Ricanapplicants both jumped around 20 percent, butFitzsimmons cautioned that those figures werebased on "smaller bases...
...most successful ex-Presidents were those who had been denied a second term and used their remaining days to restore their souls and reputations. He was impressed by how Herbert Hoover had devoted himself to service; John Quincy Adams had returned to Congress and fought against slavery and the Mexican War. But the greatest of all in retirement, Clinton argued, was the world-traveling, peacemaking, home-building Jimmy Carter, who had turned his library into a center of social action, not a museum. Yes, Clinton said, that was it: he wanted to do something useful without getting in the hair...
Both Monica M. Ramirez '01, president of RAZA, a group for Mexican-American/Latino students, and Michael A. Kay '01 chair of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, say they will focus on working more with other groups on campus...
...least one reminder of how far the nation has to go. While Raul confronted his verdict in a prison cell west of Mexico City, 50 miles away, in a prison called Southside, a tightly wound, closely shorn 34-year-old ex-cowboy named Daniel Aguilar Trevino described a Mexican political system that is still dark, unforgiving and sinister. Aguilar is serving a 50-year term for pumping the fatal bullet into Ruiz Massieu's neck from point-blank range. In recent weeks, for the first time, Aguilar described to TIME how, working through intermediaries, Raul Salinas arranged for the killing...
This is sweet: the FDA has okayed an all-natural progesterone derived from Mexican yams for use, along with estrogen, in hormone-replacement therapy. Called Prometrium, it's identical to progesterone in a woman's body. As a side benefit, it raises good cholesterol more effectively than today's synthetic progesterones...