Word: dominican
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Julia Alvarez, the famous Dominican author whose work focuses on the immigrant experience, described her growth as a Latina author to a crowd of nearly 500 in Sanders Theatre last night...
...five collections of poetry and five books—including “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents”—Alvarez related the factors that shaped her evolution as an writer. She described her family fleeing from the dictatorial regime in their native Dominican Republic, as well as the subsequent struggle to find her identity and voice as a young immigrant to America...
...could relate to a lot of her ideas, especially since my parents are immigrants from the Dominican Republic,” Varges said...
...Every time I thought I was getting somewhere, they'd start speaking Spanish.' CHARLIE RANGEL, New York Representative, on his failure to pay taxes on a villa he owns in the Dominican Republic...
...three.) Soon after, Rangel admitted he had used congressional stationery to set up meetings with potential donors to a new college center being named after him. Then, early this month, Rangel said he had neglected to declare $75,000 in rental income from a villa he owns in the Dominican Republic. Rangel says his accountant is reviewing his records and vowed to pay whatever back taxes he owes. The congressman, whose committee chairmanship puts him essentially in charge of the federal tax code, has also asked the House ethics committee to investigate his ownership of the villa...