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...payoffs of $30 to $40 per head, to smuggling organizations that take the aliens into the U.S. For this reason, many aliens arriving in Los Angeles from Mexico no longer carry cash. Instead, they are held hostage until smuggling fees are paid by relatives. The smugglers typically cram 20 to 30 aliens in each padlocked room for days on end, leaving them to sleep and defecate on the floor. Occasionally, their heads are shaved in order to subjugate them. "It's human cargo, one of the most despicable things on the face of the earth," says Gerald Klippness...
...insists on painting an idyllic picture of blue-collar Americans as "more intellectually engaged," more generous of spirit and, of course, better in bed. Overall, her observations suffer from a simplistic yearning for a nonexistent era when the poor were not blamed for their poverty, when people did not cram their appointment books and when college graduates pursued ideals instead of salaries. For all her wit and sharp insight, Ehrenreich offers no guarantee that she won't turn up cranky for dinner...
Times are shaky in the fashion world. Business is flat, department stores an endangered species, customers bored. Amid the unending cycle of sales and the unmapped racks that cram discount outlets, the industry is looking hard for what it calls direction. Anything goes now -- minis, dirndls, see-throughs, slouches -- but none of it is going very far. So the time seems right for a young designer with a couple of bright ideas and a lot of insouciant charm. California-born Gordon Henderson, for instance...
...worn so lightly that one may not realize how difficult were the problems he set for himself. How do you create long processional friezes of figures based on a Roman triumph, as in the Stucco Room at Palazzo Te, without monotonously repeating poses and gestures? How do you cram an imagined temple with such an excessive throng of spectators that the Circumcision of Christ looks more like a PEN dinner thrown by Gayfryd Steinberg, and yet keep the action coherent? Virtuosity was in Giulio's nature...
...Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR) simply forces the computer illiterates to cram and scram. And although the Core Curriculum takes painstalking measures to help students appreciate the aesthetic of thought, it directs little effort towards the aesthetics of modern technology...