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...after just a month in office struggling to retain credibility as his nation's finances appear in disarray, today fired his treasury secretary and adopted an international bailout package which hopes to stabilize the peso. Treasury Secretary Jaime Serra Puche will be replaced by another U.S. trained economist, Guillermo Ortiz Martinez. The new package is designed to limit wage and price hikes and will also include unspecified financing from industrialized nations including the U.S. and Canada. Meanwhile, the value of the peso increased today, a second straight day of improving prospects for the nation's currency...
Then, in the second half, the Crimson completed the comeback as sophomore Carlos Ortiz dished a pass to freshman Ricky Lee, who banged a goal in off the crossbar...
...dissemination of the science essay dismays Bernard Ortiz de Montellano, an anthropologist at Detroit's Wayne State University who has long lobbied for greater minority representation in science. "The danger of an Afrocentric scientific curriculum," he says, "is that if you start doing pseudoscience in schools under the guise of getting more minorities into science, you actually end up with fewer minorities in the real sciences...
...knit consortium of Afrocentrists and "melanin scholars" that includes Leonard Jeffries, the controversial chairman of black studies at City College in New York; Wade Nobles, a psychology professor at San Francisco State University; Asa Hilliard, a professor at Georgia State University; and other black scholars and psychiatrists. These "melanists," Ortiz de Montellano writes in the latest issue of the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, provide a supposedly scientific explanation for the excessive claims of Afrocentrism...
...assassination was apparently not linked to the peasant uprising in Chiapas state that began in January. Ernesto Zedillo, Colosio's campaign manager, is now considered one of the leading contenders to replace Colosio as the candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), as is the P.R.I. chief, Fernando Ortiz Arana...