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...furor over Proposition 187, however, has obscured an anti- immigration campaign that may have just as much impact, but far sooner. Attorney General Janet Reno has decided to try to virtually seal off the 2,076-mile border with Mexico to illegal crossers. The U.S. Border Patrol has long maintained it could accomplish this if given a chance, but the patrol has always been underfunded and understaffed...
Some people wondered if Smith had created the crisis in order to reunite with her husband or just to win attention. But others suggested that she had never anticipated the furor. "Whatever led her to do this, in her own mind, I don't think she ever thought it would be this big," said one woman in town. "She didn't realize that people would respond the way they did with such loving and caring...
...towns like Dusty, Dishman and Spangle. It is hard for many in the district to identify with a Congressman whose fine dark suits come from Brooks Brothers and whose tastes in entertainment run to modern art and ballet. Foley's straight-arrow image also has suffered since the furor last year over $100,000 in gains that he pocketed during four years of buying initial public offerings of stock. These highly profitable deals were legal but not available to the average investor; Foley subsequently closed his account...
...wake of the campus furor the letter caused, Counter permitted Hillel, the campus organization for Jewish students, to appoint a permanent member to the Foundation's Student Advisory Committee--a position Hillel members had long desired, but not until then been granted...
...problem with the staff's position is that it falls to consider the furor over the Foundation office in this larger context. This episode wouldn't be a big deal if Harvard had a history of being honest about race relations. But it doesn...