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...political credentials. An academic superstar, he received his doctorate in economics from Harvard and at 28 became the youngest tenured professor in Harvard history. His rise to the post of Treasury Secretary during the Clinton Administration was equally swift and marked with success. A major participant in the Mexican bailout, he is a respected thinker on issues of globalization. Though Summers is well-connected in Washington, there is little indication that undergraduate education is his primary interest. And while he has a broad view of education from a global perspective, his views on specific issues of pedagogy and higher education...
DIED. FRANCISCO "CURRO" RIVERA, 49, Mexican bullfighter who triumphed in Spain, of a heart attack while practicing in the ring; in the western state of Jalisco. He retired eight years ago after completing more than 1,000 fights but was training for a comeback this year...
...Traffic" is about at all. Yes, there is the out-of-touch drug czar (Michael Douglas), and there are a bunch of teens who smoke up, and the movie is tinged with a sense of the futility of the whole "war on drugs" business. But the cops, from the Mexican policeman caught up in corruption to the DEA agents trying to bring down a San Diego drug lord, are no club-wielding goons bent on spoiling everyone's fun. Instead, they are the movie's heroes--soldiers on the front lines of a war that cannot...
...hope the W.G.A.'s negotiations go as well as mine. And if they don't, no matter how much Hollywood may offer me to step in, I will refuse to cross the row of Mexican immigrants the writers pay to stand on the picket line for them...
...backed down. A task force appointed by Governor Mike Johanns endorsed a broad amnesty for undocumented workers, and a year and a half passed before INS agents showed up again. Last month they raided Nebraska Beef in Omaha, charged managers with criminal smuggling and expelled 212 Mexican aliens. Within two weeks, though, the workers were trickling back...