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...Chico Ruiz...
...decades ago, the leader of that revolution, Fidel Ruiz Castro, was under attack at home and abroad. Today Cuban schoolchildren, when asked about their nation's leader, call him "padre," and he is one of the acknowledged, albeit controversial, leaders of the Third World...
...Ruiz said that her family was lucky in developing a "close, trusting relationship" with their employer, who placed them and another family in a farmhouse rather than in the migrant camp...
...Ruiz said she had many problems adjusting to Harvard as a freshman. "Back in junior high school, I wanted to go to Radcliffe--I had a romanticized notion of Radcliffe. And I also wanted to see what the east is like." A recruiter from Harvard particularly made her feel she would not be alone here, she said...
...past three years, however, Ruiz said she has found the direction she wants to take. "Naturally, I want to work with migrant workers, developing effective programs for kids like me who've been shifted from school to school...