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...guys. In many ways, his existence is like that of any first-year student at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Yet when Schoch walks to class each morning it is not along the blustery shores of Lake Michigan but through the bustling streets of Barcelona, past Antonio Gaudi's Casa Batllo, to a century-old art-nouveau office building that bears the University of Chicago's red-and-white logo above its filigreed iron balconies...
...most Mexicans believe that U.S. customs agents are also on the take and permit some vehicles to cruise through border inspection stations in exchange for money. Just last month Jose Antonio Olvera, a U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service inspector at Tijuana-San Ysidro border crossings, pleaded guilty to taking almost $90,000 in bribes to let drug shipments through. (Olvera claims he did it because the cartel had threatened to kidnap his five-year-old son.) "If relatively well-paid U.S. agents aren't immune to it," says one Mexican prosecutor, "how can we expect Mexican police...
...points north, the nation's politicians--and its electorate--become increasingly Americanized. The farther away from Mexico City (and the closer to the border), the more independent-minded, entrepreneurial and individualistic the population becomes. Such thinking was once considered too "American" by many in Mexico. But no longer. Says Antonio Ocaranza, a public-affairs consultant in Mexico City: "Individual empowerment is going to be the key element in the new Mexican society...
...state along the Mexican border. Rural areas saw huge growth in Hispanic populations, but so did cities and suburbs. By the end of this year, four of the eight largest U.S. cities may have Hispanic mayors. "It's the only part of the electorate that's growing," says Antonio Gonzalez, president of the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project...
...these factors make it more difficult for Latino politicians to play traditional ethnic politics, they have also forced the most successful among them to adapt to the realities of an increasingly multicultural electorate. Former state assembly speaker Antonio Villaraigosa beat 14 other candidates in April's Los Angeles mayoral primary with help from labor, women's groups, environmentalists and the Democratic Party establishment. Villaraigosa made a strong showing among gays, despite the fact that he was running against an openly gay opponent, and among Jews, though there were two Jewish rivals on the ballot. For this week's runoff election...