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Minority-Owned Businesses On the Rise
By Elizabeth Olson
The New York Times, July 29, 2005
WASHINGTON - The number of businesses owned by minorities and women grew in recent years at rates that were two or more times the national average, according to the United States Census Bureau, which released the statistics on Thursday.
From 1997 to 2002, the total number of businesses in the United States grew about 10 percent, to 23 million from just under 21 million, according to the Census Bureau's most recent Survey of Business Owners, which is taken every five years. The bureau defined a business as an entity with revenue of $1,000 or more a year that files tax forms as an individual proprietorship, a partnership or a corporation. Click here for full story...
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 Marc of Excellence
By SANDRA GUZMAN
July 13, 2005 -- Those who know great music are hip to the fact that Marc Anthony was a bona fide A-lister way before he married the superstar formerly known as J.Lo.
He is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the biggest-selling salsa artist, his crossover records have gone triple platinum, and he has a budding Hollywood movie career. Full story... |
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 NIÑOS IN TOYLAND By ROB MARKMAN
July 27, 2005 -- When Dominican photographer Jaime Jiménez arrived in Elmhurst, Queens, in the mid-'80s, video games were a foreign notion to him. As a child, the 29-year-old didn't have the privilege of tinkering with technologically advanced playthings like a Nintendo Game Boy, which happens to be his 9-year-old son Ilias' favorite toy. Read more... |
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 Despite All the Baggage,
the Mets Need Ramirez By Murray Chass
NY Times, July 29, 2005
First, before we explore the possibility that the Red Sox might trade Manny Ramirez in the next few days, perhaps to the Mets, let's pause for a moment and feel sorry for Manny. He makes $20 million a year - that's the No. 20 with six zeroes attached - for playing baseball in Boston, and he's tired and uncomfortable. Read More...
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 WOMEN ON THE VERGE
May 11, 2005 -- IF you recognize actress Jaclyn DeSantis, it’s because she played Marly on FOX’s ill-fated Luis Guzman-starring sitcom, “Luis.” She auditioned for the role but didn’t get the part until the night before shooting. “The network offered the part to this girl, and I got it by fluke,” she admits. “Thank God that girl from Canada’s papers didn’t go through!” The L.A.-based actress, whose mother is Puerto Rican, was raised in Huntington, Long Island, and was taught to DJ by her Sicilian dad. Full Story...
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