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President Bush famously said that "Family values don't stop at the Rio Grande." For him, a love of family was an important common bond between Mexican and American culture. But the fate of his immigration reform now rests on whether he can partner with Republican Senator John Kyl to...
Conservatives are angry that amnesty is on the table. On the other side, Latino, Asian and Catholic groups have been lobbying Democrats furiously, arguing that families provide a social safety net, a built-in acculturation system and job and language training that the government--and taxpayers--would otherwise have to...
In the '40s, Mexico was like Hollywood, or like India today: a national industry heavily invested in the romantic and domestic weepie, with fearless emoting, hairpin turns of fate, mega-doses of religious and family piety, all set to the popular songs of the day. (Melodrama literally means music drama...
A Scholar and a Gentleman James Graff's profile of François Bayrou [March 26], although most interesting, seemed to give an unfair and somewhat distorted impression of the French presidential candidate's intellectual background. I am writing here as an academic, not a politician. Bayrou is a farmer...
Back in the Alps, technology has also become part of the distillation and by extension the contemplation process. La Chartreuse has relied on a sophisticated software program that's updated constantly--"It cost a fortune," says Roget--and helps run production automatically. The monks got hold of the recipe, originally...