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...would cater, as the head of the agency put it, "primarily to the Hispanic market." And what, you might wonder, is wrong with that? Non-Hispanic whites make up just 36% of the city's population, down from 56% in 1990, while the Latino share of residents has risen from 31% in 1990 to 47% today. But many of the Latinos can't or don't vote, and the city government is still made up almost entirely of Anglos. And, as Frias explains, "a lot of people still have a perception of Gigante as a little, dirty...
...shared by governments across Europe. But fiscal pressures are forcing countries to rethink and restructure the way they look after their artistic pasts - and nurture the present and future. It's not that public funding is falling; in the U.K. and France, for example, money for the arts has risen slightly. But governments across Europe are pressuring arts bodies to become more self-sufficient - even to embrace once-taboo methods like privatization and corporate sponsorship - and to recognize that commercial viability is as critical to survival as artistic merit. "Culture is business," says Werner Heinrichs, dean at the State University...
Cole is the top Harvard longer-distance freestyle swimmer and has also risen to the challenge of the Easterns both times he has competed. As a result he has been co-recipient of the Phil Moriarty award on two occasions...
22¢ Amount the price has risen since the beginning of the year...
...year long, a different swimmer has consistently risen to the challenge of providing extra points in a given week...