Word: mexicanization
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...movie mogul type complete with Oakleys and a leathery tan, a young Asian girl sporting the world’s largest variety of UCLA shirts, a woman in her 80s after “a passion fruit iced tea and a bagel, extra cream cheese” and two Mexican construction workers on their mid-morning break...
...kind of hard to explain why the cartoons at homestarrunner.com are so funny. But here goes. Homestar Runner, above, is the dorky, crudely drawn hero. His pal Strong Bad is a mysterious dude who brags a lot, wears a Mexican wrestler's mask and makes fun of Homestar. They and their friends act out spoofs, skits, adventures, music videos and fake ads, and just generally goof on their own surreal weirdness. It's like a postmodern version of the Peanuts gang. Or it's like a Saturday-morning cartoon by Salvador Dali. Or--look, it's too hard to explain...
...alarming new development," said Forest Service spokesman Wallace Mathes. Even before the raid, underfunded federal agencies had been fighting a losing battle against the problem of outlawed drugs growing on public lands. Federal officials are especially concerned about public safety in California's parks and forests because heavily armed Mexican crime networks have planted vast marijuana plantations in remote areas. Did the opium farm represent a new product line--the first step in a domestic heroin-processing operation? Unlikely. As it turned out, the three men found at the scene were Asian. (No one has yet been arrested; one suspect...
...remarks delivered before former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo’s keynote address, Summers told the approximately 5,000 in attendance that the current curricular review will be similar to Harvard’s previous attempts to define the Harvard education—having far-reaching implications “not just for the University, but for higher education and for our country and our world...
...steer clear of banks in their home countries as well as abroad. In Mexico, for example, only 1 in 5 citizens has a bank account. Unstable local currencies don't help matters, nor does the memory of mid-century bracero contracts, which temporarily withheld 10% of the wages of Mexican guest workers in the U.S. That money was never deposited as promised into Mexican savings accounts...