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...Crimson performed especially well in the men’s epee event, having two athletes place among the top 12. Sophomore Julian Rose, who was named a Second-Team All-American last year, and junior Michael Soto placed fifth and 12th, respectively...
...hope to do well this season,” Soto said. “Last year [when Harvard finished third at the Intercollegiate Fencing Association Championships] was great, but I knew that there was room for improvement. My goals for this year are to stay focused and be more consistent in competition...
That's a simplistic, if inaccurate, charge. Yet those historical grievances, says Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto, are something foreign investors have too quickly forgotten--not just in Peru but throughout Latin America, where politics are turning sharply leftward after the capitalist reforms of the '90s left more of the region in poverty...
Conditions improved in fits and starts. In the early 1980s, after repeatedly being told by agencies that her Puerto Rican looks were "too ethnic," Talisa Soto managed to break through, but only when photographers Bruce Weber and Steven Meisel insisted on working with her. The late 1980s and early '90s proved promising as a whole class of black models was able to thrive. Naomi Campbell was among the first models of any race to be anointed a "supermodel," and African-American models Beverly Peele, Karen Alexander, Tyra Banks and Veronica Webb all worked consistently. In 1992 Webb became the first...
Advertising is where models get the serious money, or as Iman calls it, "the spoils of war," but models who aren't white have a hard time getting companies to put them under contract. "Calvin Klein helped launch my career by putting me in ads," says Soto, "but he never put me under contract." She had similar experiences with cosmetics companies: they were happy to hire her on a job-to-job basis but, in contrast to the rewards given her white colleagues, never signed her to a contract. Companies are more likely to link their products to known personalities...