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Among Mexican Americans, however, there are class and other divisions that can be as important as the distinctions among Latin nationalities. "There is a huge difference between the kids born here and the kids born in Mexico," says Jesse Quintero, a teacher whose students are mostly illegals. "It's a different breed." And while the waves of illegal Mexican immigrants are exceptionally poor, the barrio's long-entrenched Mexican Americans inhabit a world more like William Bendix's TV L.A. in the 1950s show The Life of Riley: working-class comfortable. The middle class, perhaps 30% of L.A.'s latinos...
...Relays on Friday. Sheehan, Dixon, Dwayne Jones, and Brad Bunney finished second in the Distance Relay, turning in a time of 9:27.5, only three seconds over the world record, while Stricker finished second in the mile with 4:36, her best time of the season. Hammer thrower Al Quintero finished fourth at Penn on Friday with the best throw of his career and then went on to top it on Saturday at the GBCs...
...start off the day, Crimson throwers Al Quintero and Maria Acacia got a quick hold on their reservations for England Quintero, who has been outstanding all season long, beat his nearest competition by over 20 feet, with a toss of 168 feet, seven inches in the hammer throw. Acacia's discus toss of 127 feet took first place by almost five feet. She also took first place in the shot put, but the rest of the throwing events, both men's and women's, went to the Elis...
...clinched the meet thanks to some fine jumping, some outstanding throwing and strong performances in the middle distance events. To get the afternoon started, weight thrower A1 Quintero won his event with his best performance ever, a toss of 59 ft., 1/2-in., just two feet short of the NCAA qualifying distance...
...weight--1 Hegarty (BU) 71-3 3/4. 2 Reckins (BU). 3. Davison (NU). 4. Quintero (BU) Karanichocas (NU). Shot put--1 McDermott BC 52-8:2. Dawson (NU): 3 Baldman (BU): 4 Bartisint (NU): 5. White (NU) High jump--1 Saunders (BU) 7-6 1/4: 2. Johnson (H). 3. Udo (H): 4. Munoz-Bennet (BC) 49-6 1/2: 2. Udo (H). 3. Adu (BU). 4. Halt (H). 5. Saunders (BU). Pole vault--1 Heyburn (NU) 16-0: 2. Buntic (H). 3. Hutchinson (NU). 4. Yates (NU: 5. Poullain (Tuftss...