Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Michele C. LaFountain '91--the representative to MSA from La O, a Puerto Rican student organization--said, "Our statement is a cry for justice, for Harvard to take a just stand on the issue...
...would be tremendously negative. It sends a message of division, not unification to the Harvard community. It encourages every special interest group to demand their own separate buildings as part of their fundamental rights as students. Why should there not also be a Harvard-funded Black center, Asian center, Puerto Rican center, Gay and Lesbian Center, Somoan Center, ad nauseum? In principle there is no relevant difference unless the staff is willing to say how these concerns are somehow less important...
...come in for disparaging comments from corps crusaders who feel it has not done enough to recruit minorities -- although 106 of the first crop of trainees are African American, Hispanic or Asian American. "The program needs to be more diverse," insists Richard Rivera, 22, a Syracuse graduate of Puerto Rican descent...
Hewlett-Packard is spending nearly two years and $40 million designing a "factory of the future," scheduled to open in Puerto Rico next year, where computer-systems employees will be hired on the basis of their creative potential. Judging that kind of potential is the business of Ned Herrmann, whose North Carolina-based Applied Creative Services runs workshops on "whole-brain theory." Herrmann, who spent 35 years at General Electric, a dozen of them as head of management education, has cooked up a test called the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument, which includes such queries as "Have you ever experienced motion...
...turning point came his first year, when Romano began what became a four-year-long relationship with a Puerto Rican youth living in Cambridge's Roosevelt Rowers housing project. The encounter led to a flowering of sensitivity for Romano at Harvard...