Word: rican
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BALL, STUPID. In a Costa Rican sweatshop, peons are making sure that the Rawlings baseballs they stitch together for the major leagues are wrapped tight, giving them extra flight potential and allowing the Mariners' Griffey to obliterate home-run records set by two imperialist Yankees, Babe Ruth (60 in 1927) and Roger Maris (61 in '61). Anyway, that's one conspiracy theory. Many pitchers and some batters believe the ball has been spiked, but Rawlings says its tests indicate no change. "The ball isn't juiced," says Griffey. But does he have a better idea of what's going...
...Silent Blessings," according to its writer and director, Roberto Buso-Garcia, '94, "is the story of two Puerto Rican brothers living in Cambridge, chronicling a string of critical moments in their romantic, familial and cultural lives." The emergence of the film and its umbrella organization, the Harvard/Radcliffe Filmmakers, is part of a concerted effort by about 40 to 50 Harvard students to revolutionize independent filmmaking at the college. As the premiere draws near, the people who worked with the film recalled its production, filming, and the ups and downs of what for many was a new kind of artistic experience...
...short list seemed likely. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt was quick to say he didn't want the job. Federal appeals court Judge Richard Arnold has the post-Whitewater disadvantage of being a Friend of Bill's from Arkansas. The most serious second contender is Jose Cabranes, a Puerto Rican- born federal district judge in Connecticut who would be the first Latino to serve on the court. While Clinton could win some advantage with Hispanic voters by choosing Cabranes, his record on the bench is so moderate that he was also on George Bush's list of potential nominees. Though Cabranes...
...admitted numbers of Hispanic Americans and Puerto Rican students--66 and 38 respectively--each missed the existing records...
...Hispanic community is really not a community at all, but a convenient construct that pretends the problems of the Puerto Rican, Chicano, and Cuban communities can be dealt with in one fell swoop. The division of Hispanic groups on campus, therefore, is something that should be accepted as a reality and, ultimately, championed...