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...Reno and Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin stood side by side in Washington Monday to announce the culmination of a three-year sting operation targeting Mexican bankers who laundered drug money for the Cali cartel of Colombia and the Juarez cartel of Mexico. The booty: $35 million seized -- with another $122 million to be confiscated from U.S. and foreign bank accounts, and more than 180 expected arrests. And there were drugs, too: Two tons of cocaine and four tons of marijuana...
...Melville did for whaling: describe in documentary detail how the job is done. Similarly, his Ishmaels on horseback try to harpoon the mysteries of an indifferent universe. Of course they fail, but at least they don't end up talking like cafe philosophers. That role falls to an old Mexican who is trundled out in an epilogue to vaporize about death, dreams and history...
...things are gone they're gone"). On the other hand there is something unfashionably noble in McCarthy's uncompromising passion to land the big one. It takes a risky independence to still use old-fashioned symbolism with obvious religious overtones. To some, Cole's romance with Magdalena, an epileptic Mexican prostitute, will suggest the New Testament and a disorder once thought to be a gift from God. To others, the relationship of a young cowboy and a convulsive whore will sound like the subject of a bunkhouse joke...
...spellbinding ride. He is a virtuoso of the lyric description and the free-range sentence, as well as a connoisseur of cantinas and ranch kitchens. A lot of whiskey and coffee goes down and many wooden matches are ignited by horny thumbnails before John Grady Cole and a Mexican pimp named Eduardo square off with knives over the fate of Magdalena...
Republican leaders are trying everything from mea culpas to community breakfasts. For the job of state political director, the party has hired a 26-year-old Mexican-American operative named Mike Madrid, who wrote his college thesis on how the G.O.P. could win Latino votes. Senatorial candidates Issa and Fong are both running Spanish-language ads. And over the course of the year, the party will hold nine "Hispanic summits" in different parts of the state...