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Lowell's tuition is only $300 per credit-hour, making it far cheaper than attending the Harvard Extension School, said Susan C. Gomez, a former Lowell student, who said that many area residents will be severely disadvantaged if the school closes...
...explosion of commerce since the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect last year. The border, Mexicans like to say, is mostly imaginary, despite patrols, guard dogs and chain-link fences. ``They could plant land mines, and it would not stop people from crossing,'' says Mexicali writer Sergio Gomez Montero. ``We may not like gringos for historical reasons, but today the world is dividing into commercial blocks, and we are handcuffed to each other for better or for worse.'' Travel the country: it seems hard to find anyone without at least a cousin or two working al otro lado...
...broken-down fence between Mexicali, Mexico, and Calexico, California, stretches directly in front of David Gomez Rocha's plywood shack. Seven days a week the 28-year-old rises at 3 a.m. for a two-hour trip across the border to pick asparagus for $4.25 an hour. Granted amnesty in 1987, Gomez Rocha is now a legal alien. His mother has a permit to pick grapes further north in California, returning to Mexicali on weekends. ``Who would do this backbreaking work if they closed the border?'' says Gomez Rocha. ``The U.S. does not have enough farmworkers, so they hire illegals...
...suspects fleeing just minutes before the police arrived, Birmingham. The technique of ``letting it walk''--allowing drug shipments and couriers to proceed unhindered in order to keep suspected criminals ignorant of a wiretap--was used at every location. ``That strategy was the key,'' says lead investigator Steven Gomez. ``To the very end, they never knew...
Still, it is rather unusual to have ten children appear in the space of a semester in a House, and conspiracy theorists are not tempered by Irv Devore's Science B-29 explanations. "Definitely something in Mather is making all the tutors have babies," explained Gomez. "We think it's something in the water." Another good reason to invest in that Britta purifier. Barring that, a Mather House Nursery...