Power-Building President Seeks Stature for Florida International

By JULIANNE BASINGER

Modesto Maidique pushes ahead with an engineer's precision

Modesto A. Maidique, president of Florida International University, glances around

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Los Ranchos restaurant to see who is here as the waiter seats him near the back of the room.

Small groups, mainly men, lean across

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