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...Diana Rodriguez '89, who works as a minorityrecruiter for the Admissions Office says theundergraduates receive minority search lists fromaptitude tests and achievement tests and then tryto contact students they feel would make acontribution to Harvard. They then decide whatsecondary schools to visit based on the number ofinterested minority applicants and the AdmissionsOffice's past experiences with those schools...
...Rodriguez says that she recruits where shelives, New York City, where many minority studentsare really not aware of higher educationalopportunities and that she works to make themaware of Harvard as well as of collegeopportunities in general...
...want them to know that there is life afterhigh school, and that they can apply to college,"said Rodriguez. "In a sense we serve as advisors,getting in touch with them over the year to seehow their senior year and how their collegeapplication is going...
...many single mothers, starting a company is a way out of poverty. Ninfa Maria Rodriguez Laurenzo, a widow, was looking for a way to support her three youngest children when she opened a tiny Mexican restaurant in Houston in 1973. In that business, she says, "I knew there would at least be food for my family." Last year Ninfa's, her chain of ten Texas restaurants, grossed $20 million...
Since then, the Christian Democrats have splintered over who should inherit the leadership. Duarte tried to unite the party behind a trusted adviser, Abraham Rodriguez, but found no echo; instead a divided rank and file lined up behind two former Cabinet ministers, Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes and Fidel Chavez Mena. Rey Prendes is favored to receive the presidential nomination, but his candidacy will be tarnished by corruption charges that have dogged the Duarte administration...