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Alvarez was born in Puerto Rico, although she moved to Brooklyn, New York before she was a year old and grew up there. She was the first in her immediate family to attend college, but had two sisters and a brother who followed her to Harvard. Before attending Harvard, Alvarez was in all-female Catholic schools...
...Monday moved three ships into position off the Navy's gunnery range on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, amid reports of an imminent federal raid to evict protesters squatting on the Camp Garcia range. President Clinton ordered the facility reopened in January, after concluding a deal with Puerto Rico's governor, Pedro Rosello, in which Washington promised $40 million in exchange for the right to conduct operations using dummy bombs this spring and agreed to abide by a referendum held sometime in the next two years. The island's 9,000 residents would be given an extra $50 million...
...that should fail on the merits. The suit, which was filed by Metallica, E/M Ventures and Creeping Death Music, claims that by failing to block student access to the Napster servers, Yale University, Indiana University and the University of Southern California violated the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute. Such a claim should not be allowed to stand. Although the majority of MP3 files are illegal copies of protected music, online distribution of free music is growing, and there are few channels for dissemination of this music as effective as Napster. Universities should not be forced to deny...
Maldonado says the rent will likely drive him away too. He says he hopes to return to his native Puerto Rico or possibly Central America...
Dear Moron--I mean, Two Freshmen Too Many: you're being a jerk. "I am man enough to handle two girls at one time?" What, you're looking for a job in the lucrative and fast-growing field of pornography? You sound like one-hit wonder Gerardo in "Rico Suave"--"There isn't a woman who can handle a man like me / That's why I juggle two or three...