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==Favorite sons and daughters==
 
==Favorite sons and daughters==
 
General [[Colin Powell]] grew up in a poor Jamaican immigrant family in the Bronx before joining ROTC and then the Army.  Supreme Court Justice [[Sonia Sotomayor]] grew up in a heavily Puerto Rican public housing unit; her mother worked double shifts as a nurse to send her to good Catholic schools. They spotted her talent and steered her  to Princeton. The nation;s first prominent Latina, she identified herself as a "kid from the Bronx."
 
General [[Colin Powell]] grew up in a poor Jamaican immigrant family in the Bronx before joining ROTC and then the Army.  Supreme Court Justice [[Sonia Sotomayor]] grew up in a heavily Puerto Rican public housing unit; her mother worked double shifts as a nurse to send her to good Catholic schools. They spotted her talent and steered her  to Princeton. The nation;s first prominent Latina, she identified herself as a "kid from the Bronx."
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==See also==
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* [[New York City]]
    
==Movies set in the Bronx==
 
==Movies set in the Bronx==
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