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...Lopez tells Time. "People always talk about the immigration problem, but we can show we bring good to the country, too." Immigration advocates see no problem as the number of non-native troops rises. "They want to serve the country," says Michele Waslin of the National Council of La Raza, a leading Hispanic advocacy group. "They want the benefits that the military offers them...
...from these student space shotgun marriages. But many of them raise serious concerns. Harvard’s three competing satire magazines share the same offices, which will make it hard for the magazines to retain the independence of their operations. Cohabitation could help coordinate the efforts of Fuerza Latina, RAZA, and other Latino advocacy groups, which will all share a large, third floor office. It could also lead to intense political power struggles over the use of office space and influence over members with conflicting allegiances. Horses are known to become cannibalistic if forced to live at too high...
...viral that shouldn't. One notorious surveillance video, still at large online, shows a suspect in a San Bernardino County, Calif., police station shooting himself in the head with a pistol. Another video shows a chubby kid waving a golf-ball retriever like a light saber. The kid, Ghyslain Raza, was 15 at the time. Three of his classmates found the footage and put it online, and it became an instant Internet classic. Soon strangers started making fun of Raza on the street. The San Francisco Giants put the video on their Jumbotron. Raza, now 18, became known...
Paloma A. Zepeda ’06, who is half-Mexican and half-Russian, says when she showed up at meetings for the Mexican American student group RAZA, people often reacted by saying “Look, white people come to RAZA...
Zepeda, who always has been active in the Hispanic community as a board member for RAZA, Latinas Unidas and Concillio Latino, says she constantly had to defend her identity as a political conservative...