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...college football season culminates Tuesday night with a Fiesta Bowl meeting for the national championship between the top-ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers and the number two team, the University of Florida Gators. The meeting between the nation's only remaining undefeated major college teams figures to be an excellent contest, with the powerful rushing attack of Nebraska evenly countered by Florida's "Fun 'n' Gun" passing game. With both teams boasting Heisman-candidate quarterbacks and rugged defenses, the game has the makings of a classic shootout, says TIME's Steve Wulf: "It will be a great game. But I am going...
...Jose Tetla has an intimate relationship with its northern neighbor. Nearly 40% of town residents work in the U.S., many leaving families behind. They send back money for satellite-TV dishes, and each year the exiles return for the village fiesta, paying for food, music and shirts for the annual relay race. ``Without them it would be hard to have a fiesta,'' says Reveriano Garcia Garcia, 58, whose five children work as waiters in Queens. The New Yorkers contributed $1,000 for a new basketball court, now the village centerpiece...
...truck, but the friend drove it away before he awoke that morning. The truck happened to be decked in blue and gold, with a huge "ND" insignia painted on the flatbed--had he done it his way, he would have gone down with his ship, we suppose...did the Fiesta Bowl blowout contribute to that decision? I doubt it, but one never knows...
...hooray! Texas Tech (6-5) is going to the Mobil Cotton Bowl Classic, but they won their conference, and 6-4-1 Notre Dame's playing in the IBM/OS2 Fiesta Bowl is also a joke...
...welcomed immigrants -- illegal as well as legal, with few questions asked. Who else would pick grapes, pack carrots or wash dishes for $4.25 an hour or less? A few weeks ago, the town celebrated its annual "Weekend of Diversity" -- with an Okie migration commemoration on Saturday and a Hispanic fiesta on Sunday. But now Proposition 187 -- one of the most sweeping restrictions on aliens ever enacted in the U.S. -- has divided Californians along ethnic and economic lines, its angry message reverberating across the country. "When we were prospering, we closed our eyes to illegal immigration," said Juan Rivera, president...