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...student reports her wallet missing after visiting Starbucks at 36 JFK St. She left her purse unattended on the back of her chair, only to find later thar her Mexican driver’s license, Harvard ID, 4 credit cards and $3 were all missing...
...during the violent pressmen's strike of the mid-'70s. She visited the child-care centers she funded, folding her 6-ft. frame into many a kiddie-size chair. Last week, at an elite retreat in Sun Valley, Idaho, after lunch with Tom Hanks and before dinner with Mexican President Vicente Fox, she fell and lost consciousness. She died on Tuesday...
...decade ago, he was peddling pork on the streets of Guadalajara. Today his Mexican nutritional-supplement business, Grupo Omnilife, boasts yearly sales of $600 million and distributors in 10 countries. Last month Vergara, 45, ended his attempt to buy the Body Shop beauty chain. That leaves him more cash for his pet project under construction in Guadalajara, a $440 million complex with 10 world-recognized architects on staff...
...Californians never have been good at organized violence. The bloodiest battle ever to take place on California’s soil was the Dec. 6, 1846 Battle of San Pasqual during the Mexican-American War. Only a few months after the Americans took southern California without firing a shot, the locals rebelled. Twenty-one Americans and six Californios died in the battle; within the year, U.S. General Stephen W. Kearny put down the insurrection and marched triumphantly into Los Angeles...
What’s an honest Californian to do? For now, I’m keeping the thermostat on 80 and making sure not to use expensive scientific equipment when the grid goes down. I’m also doing some reading on Andres Pico, the Mexican leader at the Battle of San Pasqual. That is, if the lights stay...