Word: rican
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...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...
...fact, is driving the FBI crazy. Since early April, some lucky residents of the gritty Puerto Rican seaside village of Vega Baja have been zipping around with new cars and motorcycles, buying new houses and otherwise behaving like Donald Trump. Turns out that several villagers (no one will say who or how many) dug up at least one of about ten big plastic drums containing as much as $20 million that someone, presumably a drug dealer, had buried on a nearby farm. While townsfolk kept digging fresh holes all over the place, agents dashed about trying to reclaim the cash...
...program began in Sweden, where some 100,000 schoolchildren, helped by matching government grants, have been able to buy 160,000 acres of Costa Rican forest. A similar venture affiliated with the Nature Conservancy has enlisted thousands of U.S. students to preserve 110,000 acres of tropical parkland in Belize. Among the participants: a class of autistic children in the Bronx who cashed in enough cans to buy an acre of species-rich jungle...