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...convincingly shows, that is the situation we face today vis-à-vis Mexican immigration. He quotes former National Intelligence Council Vice Chairman Graham Fuller, who says of the Mexican-dominated regions of the American Southwest, “We may be building toward the one thing that will choke the melting pot, an ethnic area and grouping so concentrated that it will not wish, or need, to undergo assimilation into the mainstream of American multi-ethnic English-speaking life...

Author: By Duncan M. Currie, | Title: Immigration and E Pluribus Unum | 4/14/2004 | See Source »

...must’ve done something to displease the hockey gods, because your next opponent is an absolute tactical nightmare. For them, Objective No. 1 is to make you mess up, and Objective No. 1(a) is to embarrass you in the process. They choke off play in the neutral zone so tightly that you feel like you’re playing in a bathtub...

Author: By Jon PAUL Morosi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ON HOCKEY: Meehan Big Advantage for Brown; Princeton Fires Quesnelle | 3/12/2004 | See Source »

...can’t stomach the idea of Oedipus and his mother, let alone think of my father as a sexual being. And if I were ever to come into contact with the pickup line “you remind me of my mother,” I would choke on my drink and sprint in the opposite direction...

Author: By Elise M. Stefanik, | Title: Free Falling | 2/17/2004 | See Source »

...Inside, I was feeling like I was going to choke, or pass out, or die,” she says...

Author: By Katharine A. Kaplan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: College Faces Mental Health Crisis | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

...most of his hours building up his less controversial film business. Death of a Dynasty, a hip-hop-industry spoof that Dash financed, produced and directed, will be released soon. Dash Films will shoot State Property 2, a revenge drama, in February. The pressure sometimes is evident. When Artie (Choke) Alston, a cameraman, shows Dash some backstage scenes on a laptop one recent afternoon, Dash doesn't hide his displeasure. "Everything gets done half-ass with you," he says. Choke then sits on a windowsill, staring at his feet. Dash is hard not only on the movie crew. "Sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entrepreneurs: Dashing Diversification | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

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