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...illogic of any crackdown is that most studies of Latino immigrants show they have a strong work ethic, tight-knit families and a low use of public services. Despite being underpaid and undereducated, few cross the border to collect welfare. A recent study of census data showed that 16.9% of Latino immigrants in Los Angeles County received public assistance in 1990, compared with 41.7% of the non-Latino white population and 64.6% of blacks...
...also hope the Career Forum happens again. It's a valuable chance for students to see what awaits them in the real world (and also to collect some neat, free stuff: keychains, cameras, mousepads, frisbees and Mickey Mouse pencils). We just hope that next time it's a forum for many careers and for all students...
...want to buy ourselves kegs and party we should just collect $5 from everyone and not use students' money," he said...
Woolsey nonetheless insists the CIA will continue to deal with sources one of his subordinates calls "scumbags." Declared Woolsey in a press conference last week: "The worse the group, the more we are likely to want to collect intelligence from them. The very fact of human-rights violations makes ((a)) group of more interest to us . . . exactly for the same reason that it is the worst of the local organized crime groups that are of the most interest to local police...
With the positive ID of Jouret's death, the mystery of the cult doesn't get any closer to being solved -- it just deepens, says TIME Switzerland reporter Robert Kroon. There's still the question of who benefited from the undoubtedly large sums of money that the cult collected from its members. Swiss media are reporting a transfer of $93 million to an Australian bank account held by one cult figure. "This was obviously a cult with a double life," says Kroon. "But you wouldn't think that the leaders would collect all this money and then kill themselves...