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...starred in Les Miserables on Broadway, has appeared on the ABC soap General Hospital. The cultural wave Martin is riding--Latin pop--we must admit, is also not an entirely new phenomenon. Salsa, rumba, mambo and other Latin musical forms have made inroads on American pop music--Celia Cruz, Ruben Blades, Gloria Estefan, Ritchie Valens, Los Lobos, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Machito, Willie Colon, Tito Puente and many, many others have, for decades now, scored hits, excited crowds and pioneered new sounds. TIME's "discovering" Latin pop would be a bit like Columbus discovering Puerto Rico...
...blacks. The police shooting last month of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed Guinean immigrant, has ignited passions. Though the crisis will be over long before the election--replaced, no doubt, by some other New York nightmare--community leaders say they won't forget. "This has unified blacks and Latinos," says Ruben Diaz Jr., a state assemblyman from the Bronx, "and together, they will vote against Giuliani and in droves for Hillary Clinton...
...says Ruben was generous with discounts forquantity buyers like her school, giving store giftcertificates worth 20 percent of each purchase...
...says it was not Ruben's generosity thatwas his downfall...
...Ruben was unavailable for comment for thisstory...