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Can Hillary say gracias? She sure should. With her campaign for president looking like it was on the ropes, and every knowledgeable observer in the country – including her husband – saying primary wins in Texas and Ohio were crucial for her to continue, the New York senator banked on Hispanics. By: Jose Cancela

The Joseph A. Unanue Latino Institute presents the award winning novelist, Eduardo Lago on March 12, at 8 pm at Seton Hall University in the Chancellor’s Suite. Lago is the recipient of the Nadal Prize, Spain’s oldest and most prestigious literary award for his first novel Llamame Brooklyn (Call Me Brooklyn), and the 2007 National Critics’ Award.

As the Democratic presidential nomination contest heads for a showdown in Texas on March 4, Hispanics have emerged as a potentially pivotal constituency in the battle between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

Univision Communications Inc. revealed its plans for comprehensive coverage of the February 21st Democratic debate with Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama. The debate is sponsored by CNN, Univision Communications Inc. and the Texas Democratic Party and presented by the Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation on behalf of the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the LBJ Library in conjunction with the University of Texas.

HarperEntertainment, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced the acquisition of an autobiography by boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya. To be called AMERICAN SON, De La Hoya’s book will chronicle his rise as one of the most-talked about fighters in the history of boxing, a frank and touching memoir about his pursuit and achievement of the American Dream.

BabyCenter en Español, the leading online resource in Spanish for new and expectant parents, today unveiled a new first – the Top 10 Hispanic Baby Names of 2007. The list was derived from names submitted on BabyCenter en Español by moms who had babies in 2006 and 2007 and are expecting in 2008.

The stereotypical story of US Hispanics is that of a Mexican running across the Border or that of a Cuban risking their life on a shabby raft for a better life in the U.S. They are often depicted as running behind trucks in hopes of scoring a job in manual labor or they are portrayed as single mothers with no education, no job and a handful of children. Even my parents’ story can fit right into the American stereotype of Hispanics. My mother’s struggle as a five year old girl who only spoke Spanish when she moved to the United States and had to grow up in a home with her mother who could barely pay the bills on her own and eight of her other siblings some of who she had to help raise is very stereotypical as well as my father who came to America in his twenties and struggled to get by, got his citizenship thirty years later and til this day barely knows English. By Jacqueline Palmer – Florida State University