Word: rico
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hugo, the most powerful storm to strike the Caribbean this decade, left as many as 50,000 people homeless in Puerto Rico, and some observers have estimated property damage in the hundreds of millions of dollars...
Call me naive, but I was so sure of it that I would have made a bet with anyone. Form a line and place your bets, current odds are 3-1 that a course on Puerto Rico will finally be offered at Harvard...
When Gov. Rafael Hernandez-Colon of Puerto Rico made an official visit to Cambridge in March 1987, the University gave him and Harvard's Puerto Rican community a warm reception. The Harvard Foundation presented to Hernandez-Colon an award "for outstanding contributions to governmental leadership and international cooperation...
...find it hard to believe that the late Morales-Carrion was the only qualified professor in this world to teach about Puerto Rico. Morales-Carrion was certainly not the first prominent Puerto Rican historian, and he is certainly not the last...
...professor who was planning to teach the course last year is Luis E. Agrait, an associate professor of history at the University of Puerto Rico. La O presented Agrait's name to the University and after establishing contact, Agrait began to coordinate the course, with the hope of teaching it last spring. A week before spring registration, the University decided not to offer the course...