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Forced to reveal their method of implementing affirmative action in admission decisions, Texas law school officials admitted that they reserve about 15 percent of their places for Blacks and Mexican-Americans. And, if quotas weren't bad enough, Blacks and Hispanics are evaluated by separate admissions committees, using separate admissions criteria...
...steamed. Seafood that's fried or covered with rich sauce isn't just high in fat -- it's high in artery-clogging fat, because many seafood restaurants, like Red Lobster, fry fish in partially hydrogenated oil, the group says. The center is the same group that said Chinese, Mexican and Italian food are no-nos for those watching their fat grams...
...official probe of the September 28 murder of the Mexican ruling party's No. 2 man claims to have unearthed evidence of conspiracy among elected officials resistant to reforms. Late yesterday, the Attorney General's office in Mexico City announced that a congressional aide accused his boss, fugitive Congressman Manuel Munoz Rocha, of having plotted the killing of Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Secretary-General Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu "by orders of the group" to which Rocha belonged. The news, a rumor for days before it broke, has rocked Mexican political establishment: the aide's confession also suggests the existence...
...just fire me?" asks Al Percolo (Albert Brooks), the downtrodden but game talent hunter in The Scout. "I thought of that," snaps the meanest general manager in baseball history (Lane Smith), "but I like this better." Al is talking about his scouting assignment so deep in the Mexican bush leagues that they play in the rain because it makes sliding easier. There he discovers Steve Nebraska (Brendan Fraser), a phenom with a fast ball so potent it knocks over the catcher and the umpire. Steve is in dire need of an understanding father figure -- especially after he gets...
...Japan, as well as the insurance and glass business. All isn't copascetic with Japan, though: the U.S. placed Tokyo on a "watch list" for its barriers to American wood and paper companies.MEXICO . . . IS THE ASSASSIN A MEMBER OF CONGRESS? The investigation into the Sept. 28 assassination of top Mexican politician Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, secretary general of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), has found a suspect: a Mexican congressman who allegedly paid for the shooting. Jorge Rodriguez Gonzalez, arrested over the weekend, says his boss, Congressman Manuel Munoz Rocha, hired him and his brother to plan...