Chuck’s Good Luck

NEW YORK — At first I was annoyed at the announcement that I was to write report on my District representative. It was the beginning of the summer of 1997 and my 6th grade year was almost over. Begrudgingly, I made my way to the school library to do research. Full story

In the Eye of the Storm

Person of Influence Profle

NEW YORK - When she left in the winter of 1973, her feet stood on unstable ground. The years after the 1961 assassination of Trujillo, the heartless Dominican dictator of three decades and the unprecedented 1965 U.S. occupation when LBJ sent 40,000 troops to the island for fear of another Cuban-like revolutionary upheaval, the Dominican Republic, was inflicted with a stream of unsteady governments. Full story