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Rodriguez's father (now deceased) hailed from Puerto Rico, and her mother is from the Dominican Republic. She was raised in both places and in Texas and New Jersey to boot. She dropped out of high school in ninth grade but later got a G.E.D. Her decision to go into acting came after one of her two older brothers told her to get a job. "I don't like working at anything I don't like to do," she says. "I figured, Why not become an actress so I can see what it's all about and meet people...
...Navy out of Vieques, Puerto Rico, Now! (Thursday, August 17): The Puerto Rican Alliance of Los Angeles will hold a rally and march to demand an end to the U.S. Navy's presence on Vieques, an island off Puerto Rico...
...issues that students confronted this year--police brutality, ethnic studies, American military involvement in Puerto Rico--are a generation removed from those that motivated protesters in 1970. After all, Afro-American studies has evolved from a marginal concession to the "jewel in Harvard's crown...
...longtime Harvard administrator, Robert Shenton died Feb. 29 of injuries from a fall he suffered while on vacation in San Juan, Puerto Rico...
...With the improvement of current players and the addition of talented recruits from Puerto Rico and Wisconsin, the Crimson has reason to be optimistic about the future of men's volleyball at Harvard...