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Yesterday’s lecture, which was also sponsored by RAZA, was followed by a luncheon and a book reading by Broyles-Gonzalez. It comes on the heels of complaints by some students on what they say is the slow, closed nature of deliberations on the certificate proposal by the Faculty Committee on Ethnic Studies...
...That night, I set out to check my e-mails in Peshawar's old bazaar. The only Internet place is up a dark, winding stairway, past a group of Koranic students weaving mats for the wall of a mosque. At the Internet shop, my driver Raza unabashedly dashes from machine to machine, staring wide-eyed. "Mr. Tim," he pleads, "can you give me computer lesson?" Impressed by his new enthusiasm for technology, I agree. Then I glance over at the other Net aficionados. They're teenagers, wearing baggy salwar kameez outfits and prayer caps, and all of them are staring...
...week of September, they hope to have worked out the details of a graduated amnesty program for millions of Mexicans who are living illegally in the U.S. "It's time to get real," Fox said last week in Milwaukee to the annual convention of the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic civil rights group. "The time has come for us to turn migration from a source of friction into a shared responsibility that is mutually beneficial...
...dangers illegal migrants face and the economic imperative that drives them. He also knows that while it will be years before they become voters, their friends and relatives are among the 35 million Hispanic Americans who are watching him carefully. "This is a critical opportunity for Bush," said La Raza vice president Cecilia Munoz...
...authentic" Hispanic portrayal one steeped in Hispanic culture? Is it Ramon Estevez, a.k.a. Martin Sheen, playing Anglo President Josiah Bartlet on The West Wing? Does it even have to be played by a Hispanic actor? Spokeswoman Lisa Navarrete of the National Council of La Raza, which makes these distinctions every year when it gives out its ALMA awards in film, TV and music, says the answer is not cut and dried. (The group once even recognized non-Latino Nicholas Turturro for playing a Latino cop on NYPD Blue.) "We want [Hispanic] actors to be able to play Shakespeare...