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Whether or not she's already had her Fifteen Minutes of fame: Well, freshman year I was in a picture in the Metro section of The Boston Globe. My roommate and I happened to be standing behind Ralph Nader when he spoke at a rally in the Yard. But that's not enough. Hopefully my time will come...
...Miami's. Here we are members of the power structure," boasts Telemundo TV boss Joaquin Blaya, the Chilean-born executive credited with updating and reviving Spanish- language TV in the U.S. Increasingly that power is political too: two Cuban-born Americans represent the immigrant community in Congress. And the Metro-Dade Board of County Commissioners, recently reshaped by court redistricting, now has six Hispanics, four blacks and three "Anglos." One of its first acts was to repeal the English-only law that prohibited local government from conducting business in Spanish or Creole...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...screen, none is more hellish than the year 2032 as envisioned in Demolition Man. It posits the total triumph of every kind of correctness that is urged on us today -- political, dietary, linguistic. It is not merely that all of San Angeles (the Southern California metro area stretching from Santa Barbara to San Diego and embracing Los Angeles) has been declared a no-smoking area. It is also legally salt free. And alcohol, red meat and sex free too. If you cuss in public, you are issued a ticket by all-hearing, omnipresent machines. If you need to find...
...Apache. Police also grabbed Alvan Hudson, 19, who they say was in the truck as well. The day before, they arrested the driver of the truck, Recondall Wiggins, 19, who seemed so stunned by the deed that he ran to confess it to his mother, a secretary in the Metro Dade police department. "Momma! Did you hear about the tourist that got shot? I'm going to prison 'cause we did it," he told her. Barely an hour after the crime, he, Jones, and a third cruising bandit even drove back to the police-packed scene in a stolen...