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...first category. Appealing to a broad, mainstream audience, it represents one of the first endeavors by a major publishing house to tap into this tradition. It includes the most renowned naturalized or U.S. born Latino writers and some alluring tales, but ultimately only leaves the reader with a hunger for more--it's like being taunted by the smells of Hispanic cooking at a food fest without getting to sit down and enjoy a full satisfying meal...
...Songs of Self-Discovery" contains the most introspective pieces. These selections recount discoveries of identity, sexuality, language and emotions. "Aria," Richard Rodriguez' introductory chapter to his book Hunger of Memory is perhaps the best offering in this section; the piece grapples lyrically with the two cultures that separate his public and private spheres. Sandra Cisneros and Rudolfo Anaya's selections explore adolescent sensual awareness in markedly different ways. Anaya's nearly magical story is infused with innocent curiosity, while Cisneros' darker story deals with the traumatizing effects of leaving childhood games to play adult roles...
More than 100 people attended the rally, where Yale Law students, who had been fasting for seven days, linked arms with Harvard Law students in a symbolic gesture to pass the hunger strike on to Harvard Law students for the upcoming week...
...hunger strike is an effort to show solidarity with the refugees who have been fasting since January 29. Students at other colleges will also fast in coming weeks in an attempt to gain enough support to reverse the policy established by Bush and continued by Clinton...
...hunger strike will, we hope, show [Clinton] that there are concerned citizens in the U.S. who expect Clinton to live up to his promises," said Juny E. Francois. Francois is a Haitian-American who is a second-year Law student who spoke at the rally...