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Indeed, some Native American students say they sense an irony in their choice to attend Harvard. After all, the school's traditional and elite reputation keeps many Native Americans from applying, says Rosa J. Soler, Medical School associate director of recruitment and multicultural affairs...
STEPHEN DE LA ROSA (D) District 6 (Northwest and West Chicago suburbs...
...Rosa, a maintenance technician in Elk Grove Village, is an active member of numerous community organizations, including the local A.C.L.U. and PTA. But as a heavy underdog in the race, with no political experience, he will have to stretch his "common-man" credentials...
Based on a 1994 series that won Dash the Pulitzer Prize, Rosa Lee is an unflinching portrait of underclass pathology in Washington's ghetto. The protagonist, Rosa Lee Cunningham, was a 57-year-old chronic welfare recipient, petty thief, drug addict and prostitute who died from aids earlier this year. Her worst failing may have been passing along her self-destructive traits to most of her offspring; she was even capable of recruiting one of her daughters into prostitution at age 11. Of her eight children by six different fathers, only two managed to escape to the mainstream world, through...
Unlike such other recent works on the underclass conundrum as William Julius Wilson's When Work Disappears, Rosa Lee proffers neither theories nor proposals. Instead, Dash allows Cunningham's life story to speak for itself in all its depressing complexity. Cunningham's case was extreme even by the standards of the underclass, but it speaks volumes about the devastating combination of circumstance and personal flaws that condemns them to misery. By refusing to be judgmental, Dash illuminates the simplistic limitations on the far ends of the welfare debate. It is a problem, he strongly implies, for which neither side...