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...Such a mess," says Roger Conner, director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which advocates stronger restrictions. "We imagine ourselves as responsible for the whole world's problems, but immigration over the next 40 years will mean 50 million more people, and once they get here, they have children." "Our kids can't get jobs because the illegals take them," says Harold Ezell, Western commissioner of the INS. "If we don't control this border, we're going to lose control of this country." Says Conner: "The politicians don't want to talk about what is happening...
...first suicide anyone could recall at the monument. To most of his friends, Davis had not seemed traumatized by Viet Nam, but some said he had returned cynical and bitter. "Who knows what he was thinking about?" said former Marine Mike Conner, one of the veterans who help stand a 24-hour volunteer watch at the memorial. "Maybe the survivor guilt...
...during the Olympics I delighted in watching my children play Mary Lou Retton and Bart Conner...
...bars, the Chinese on the high. Their scores flashed seconds apart in a tit-for-tat exchange of steadily mounting tension. Johnson opened with a 9.80 to Li Yuejiu's 9.90. Hartung countered with a 9.90, while the Chinese leveled off, unable to push their scores higher. Finally, Conner topped out with a 10; the U.S. team pulled ahead...
...American men as well as the women could look forward to the prospect of further medals in contests on individual apparatuses. But for a nation that previously had won but two Olympic gymnastics medals in 52 years, the market had already been brisk indeed. It was the oldtimer Bart Conner who best summed up the dramatic transformation that had taken place. "I've been a part of gymnastics in America when we weren't any good at all," said Conner. "To be a part of it now when we come to this moment, when we finally pull...