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...bilingual teachers in the area, it is necessary to look farther afield. In this case, Puerto Rico is an ideal location for searching out candidates, both because it is a semi-autonomous territory of the United States with relatively lax immigration laws, and because Boston has a large Puerto Rican community that would benefit from Puerto Rican teachers. Boston recruiters hope to hire over 40 new bilingual teachers in the next five years. Although they are eager for applicants, the decision process is far from indiscriminate: Teachers must have past educational experience in Puerto Rico as well as the willingness...
...Manuel Miranda, 28, the conceiver, composer, lyricist and star of In the Heights, had a bit more experience with musicals than Stew did--he got what he describes as a "lethal dose of musical theater" while acting in shows at his New York City grade school (the short Puerto Rican sixth-grader played Conrad Birdie in Bye Bye Birdie). He started writing In the Heights when he was living in the Latino house at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., incorporating the hip-hop that he had grown up listening to as well as the Latin styles of favorite artists like...
...does your heritage affect your music? -Rudy Rodriguez, Corpus Christi, TexasIt influences everything that I do-being Puerto Rican and from New York. I think you can hear it in my music and in the choices that I make...
Alegría was driving a Lexus RX10 in the Puerto Rican city of El Condado at around 5 a.m. on June 29 when he crashed the vehicle into an electrical post, a tree and an iron door. [SEE CORRECTION...
CORRECTION: The article reported that El Condado is a Puerto Rican city. It is in fact a neighborhood in the city of San Juan...