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AVOID OFF-SHORING Have you received spam from Costa Rican off-track-betting facilities offering juicy rebates? Ignore it. These shops aren't regulated and can easily take you for a ride. "A novice should have his head examined if he bets with one of these places," says Richard Bomze, president of the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association...
...Kitty’s mass appeal. Among those in attendance were anthropologists and market researchers as well as a number of undergraduates. Barbara M. Savat ’07 came to the conference out of a strong interest in Japanese culture, describing how the Sanrio phenomen hit her Puerto Rican middle school hard. “I liked it as a child and I still like it now,” she says...
...utterly false impression with many of your readers that I endorsed Huntington’s views. On the contrary, as I emphasized to the reporter, I welcome the recent wave of Latino immigration. Indeed, three of my own grandchildren are Latino immigrants (since my daughter married a Costa Rican). I believe that Latino immigrants, including my grandchildren, will make a great contribution to America...
...percent of the Class of 2007 is, in fact, “foreign” according to the admissions office—meaning that they are not from the United States or Canada— and that 34.9 percent other students identify themselves as Asian-American, African-American, Puerto Rican, Mexican-American, Hispanic-American or Native American, the preamble to the Foreign Cultures section presumes that all students at the University identify most closely to the “U.S. and Anglophone cultures...
Benzino, who is black and Puerto Rican, may have helped The Source, but it wasn't long before his friendship with Mays was also hurting it. In 1994 Benzino and his fledgling rap group, the Almighty RSO, went to editors at The Source, threatening to "put n_____s in body bags" if their album wasn't positively reviewed. (Benzino maintains he was kidding.) The editors knew that their boss was managing the group, and on those grounds, they refused to cover the band at all. But as The Source went to press, Mays inserted a three-page profile...