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...Mexicans to work legally north of the border. Recognizing that some forms of foreign investment are beyond the pale, Fox has vowed that the 1938 nationalization of Mexican oil resources is "untouchable." "If Fox screws up royally, that's when the nationalism will come in," says Manuel Garcia y Griego, director of the Center for Mexican-American Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington. "It's like anti-immigrant feeling in the U.S.--it's just waiting in the wings. All you have to have is unemployment going up." Though Mexican labor statistics are murky, Fox admits that...
JonBenet was a veteran of dozens of contests, a confident and adorable pixie who kept scrapbooks documenting her pageant appearances. Those who saw her perform say she was a force to be reckoned with. "She was such a natural," says LaDonna Griego, director of the Colorado program for the All Star Kids organization, based in Dallas. "But she was untouched by it. When JonBenet won, she was just as giddy as the first time, and she was just as happy, it seemed, to be an alternate. At the Christmas pageant, she sat there and just said to herself, 'Please call...
Parents and pageant organizers also claim that competing dramatically enhances a young child's self-confidence. "I started with my daughter, who was beautiful but shy," says Griego. "She became much more outgoing. But the real difference was in my son, who was very shy and never walked with his head up. Now he's a totally different person. Very confident...
...they promised. Of 1,100 structures that were destroyed or damaged during the riots, about half were rebuilt with the help of loans, insurance money or the owner's own funds. Of the remaining half, about 250 are still vacant lots. "He's not atypical," says Linda Griego, a former L.A. deputy mayor who is now president of RLA, a redevelopment organization formed just weeks after the riots. "There were others like him who every time they took two steps forward went back...
Over the next several months, Griego and fellow Reporters Lou Kilzer and Norm Udevitz published dozens of articles proving that about 99% of so-called "missing children" were not abducted by strangers. Rather they were runaways (most of whom returned home within 72 hours) or were taken by parents involved in custody battles. The series, edited by Charles Buxton Jr., pointed out that in 1984 the FBI received reports on only 67 children kidnaped by strangers. For Post Editor David Hall, the stories were especially rewarding, since they began with "a rookie reporter looking deeper into a routine story...