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In the face of such harassment, Dona Violeta's posture has been that of a grande dame icily putting a cheeky pigherd in place. When a visitor to her office greeted her with the standard postrevolutionary salute, "Good morning, comrade," she fired back, "Don't you dare call me that...
It wasn't always that bad in East St. Louis. Katherine Dunham, a grande dame of the dance, was able to operate a studio in the city in the late 1960s. Heptathlon gold medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee recalls a happy childhood there and still returns occasionally from the West Coast...
On the bleak, brown plains of Mexico's Rio Grande valley, drug smuggling is nearly as common as a coyote's yowl. Thus Mexican police were not all that surprised last week when a search of a cattle ranch 20 miles outside the town of Matamoros turned up 75 lbs...
Texas officials credited the discovery of El Padrino's cult in part to Mexico City's drug crackdown along the border, but that was small comfort to the families of Mark Kilroy and the other dead. As relatives of more than 100 missing people crowded Matamoros' funeral homes to learn...
But Hightower's tub-thumping has prompted resentment among industry giants like Othal Brand, a vegetable grower in the Rio Grande valley. Says Brand: "The little farmer has gone the way of the oxcart. Leave it up to Hightower, and we'd be like India." Among Hightower's powerful foes...