Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course offerings and then skip all the way to sociology. Not this time. This time I stop at the Romance languages and decide right there to add Spanish A to my course load. Since then--and to my dismay--I've several times expressed a craving for some "real" Mexican food as opposed to "yo quiero Taco Bell." I've also looked at some Mexican literature and got interested in the history...
...themselves HFG--Hacking for Girlies--shut down the Times's website for nine hours. People trying to access the Times's Web page got instead a mixture of messages of support for imprisoned hacker Kevin Mitnick, nude pictures and some vituperation about CAROLYN MEINEL, a 50-year-old New Mexican who wrote The Happy Hacker, a book about the methods criminal hackers use, in which she compares them to terrorists. Meinel says every Internet-access provider she has used has been attacked, but she was surprised at the latest action. "Frankly, I didn't expect them to hack...
According to Vasconcelos, the Mexican government recently upgraded the Boston consulate, in recognition of the size of the Mexican community here...
...nearing midnight in the solarium, the informal room on the third floor of the White House. The Mexican food had been cleared away, and a few dinner guests were hanging out waiting for the President to come back from taking a phone call. Just as he was returning, the First Lady noticed out of the corner of her eye that the TV was on, tuned to the David Letterman show. Casually, she leaned over, picked up the remote control and switched the set off before the President could hear a barrage of scandal jokes...
...course, is the patron saint of lost, botched and unfinished works. The reissue, says its producer Rick Schmidlin, is "kind of an attempt to defend his genius." Indeed, the film is now better in many of its particulars, though you still have to buy Charlton Heston as a Mexican detective. Anyway, as Schmidlin readily notes, there's no way of knowing what Welles (or Davis or Hemingway) would have ultimately signed off on, and I'm not going to worry about it. I'm going to worry about all those J.D. Salinger stories squirreled away in New Hampshire...