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...most responsible for NAFTA Man's ascendance in McAllen is a former Catholic priest turned economic hustler named, coincidentally, Mike Allen. As president of the local economic-development office, the 63-year-old executive uses local tax funds to attract business to McAllen--as well as to its Mexican sister city, Reynosa, across the vein-thin river. "I remember back in '88 meeting the mayor of Reynosa. He had an AK-47 in his back seat. We did a handshake deal to bring manufacturers to Mexico," says Allen. Back then, Reynosa had fewer than 20 factories, with 16,000 employees...
Critics point out that the Mexican maquilas have drained jobs from the U.S. side. Allen says those jobs were leaving anyway. And even though the Rio Grande Valley remains one of the nation's poorest regions, a lucrative new companion industry--logistics and technical support--has helped boost job growth 7% last year in the McAllen area, the best in Texas. The 2,000 mostly American maquila professionals who cross the bridge daily into Reynosa bring in $1 million a year in tolls alone for the city of McAllen. "If Reynosa is not doing well," says city manager Mike Perez...
...lure to a classmate, Jenny (Gretchen Mol, the Vanity Fair cover girl who was in two Woody Allen films), and a threat to Jenny's fiancé Phillip (Frederick Weller, who played Brian Wilson in a recent Beach Boys bio-pic). Where attraction looms, in a LaBute play, pain must follow. It's his theme: that people, people like us, hurt people. He has the craft to ensure they do so instructively and entertainingly. The play wouldn't work as seductively as it does-the set-up, the darkening, the climactic switcheroo-without four beguiling actors who make their characters...
...attempt to help the campus sort out some of the contentious issues raised by the Mansfield, Horowitz and "Invasian" controversies, Dean Harry Lewis worked with S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, to organize a panel discussion, entitled "Free Speech & Responsible Journalism in the Academic Community...
...trillion economy, it's a pimple, and everyone knows it. In January, Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill readily noted that lower interest rates (monetary policy) do more to stimulate the economy than anything the Administration could do on the tax front (fiscal policy). Chimes in Allen Sinai, chief global economist at Decision Economics: "To really prevent a recession, we would have to double, or more, the tax reductions this year and next...