Word: rico
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This is it. The grueling preseason with its seemingly endless yardage; the sun and full-time training in Puerto Rico over Christmas; the bitter taste of the unexpected loss to Princeton followed by the ecstasy of the upset of Indiana and the convincing defense of the Eastern Seaboard title--these events are history now, and the time has come, at next week's NCAA Championships, for the Crimson swim team to show itself and the world just how good a swimming program we have here in Cambridge...
...Covering Bush is like covering an athletic event," says Brew, who has matched his fellow jogger almost stride for stride from Iowa to Maine to Puerto Rico. "Despite the routine gladhanding of politics, Bush truly likes people and is getting a kick out of running for President." Bush and his wife Barbara also work hard to ensure that their press escorts enjoy the process as well. Recalls Brew: "When I spent a day at their home in Houston, Barbara offered to do my laundry, while George-no one calls him Mr. Bush-lent me swim trunks and my choice...
...backwater Bali Hais are to be found in the Leeward Islands, which are part of the Lesser Antilles, south and east of Puerto Rico; Dutch-ruled St. Eustatius, better known as Statia, and Saba; French St. Barthelemy, a.k.a. St. Barts; and the British islands of Anguilla, Montserrat and Barbuda. These islands were named but largely ignored by the Spanish because they offered little promise of quick riches; for the most part, they have scant rainfall and thin soil. Thus they were generally spared the excesses of European rivalry that devastated rich plantation colonies like Jamaica, Trinidad, Cuba and Hispaniola. They...
Kansans aside, the primary is much involved with a uniquely Puerto Rican issue: statehood. Over nearly three dec ades of Commonwealth status, sentiment for making Puerto Rico the 51st state has grown steadily, and one recent poll put it at 55%. To boost that cause, the island's majority party, the New Progressive Party (P.N.P.), sponsored the 1977 legislation establishing the primaries, thus ending the custom of party leaders selecting convention delegates. "The primaries are a giant step toward promoting and achieving statehood," says Hernán Padilla, Republican Party executive vice president. "They take us into the direct...
Occasionally, the candidato turned awkward. After mounting a native paso fino horse in Caguas and finding himself atop an unfamiliar English saddle, Connally experienced a few nervous moments when the mare bounded down a rain-slicked brick street. In Coamo, he told a questioner that if Puerto Rico becomes a state, "you will first be an American, and second you will be a Puerto Rican." Anti-statehooders seized on the statement as proof that the island's cultural identity would disappear, but Connally later recovered, sort of. "You'll hardly know you have it [statehood]," he told...