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...section about Dalton, Ga., the "Carpet Capital," described how the city recruited Mexican teachers in order to attract Mexican workers. I found the condescending manner of some Dalton residents outrageous. You quoted an elderly Southern gentleman as saying, "I know these [Mexican] children are here to stay--as butchers, Realtors, car salesmen, physicians." Of course, the "physicians" remark was gratuitous. This man's attitude only reflects the fact that while the Hispanic population in the U.S. may be growing, our children are destined only to service the country's middle class unless they are better educated. KAREN SILVA Miami...
...winners were nothing extraordinary, just bland establishments with nice names. Having lived in this town for a good part of my life, I felt that everything still oozed with a conventional Midwestern taste. There was some effort to spice up the restaurant list with categories like "Best Mexican Food." I thought, whatever, as if that stuff is actually authentic in Topeka...
...biggest mother-and-son crime team since Ma Barker and her boys swore off bank robbing. The Oklahoma-born Sante, 63, has a rap sheet stretching back to the 1960s. Among her more exotic crimes: stealing a $6,500 fur at a Washington piano bar and enslaving illegal Mexican immigrants to work as maids. Kenneth has been convicted of robbery and assault. Mother and son are jointly accused of using a worthless check to buy their $14,000 Lincoln Town Car--the charge for which they are now locked up in a New York jail. They have not been charged...
...they could recruit Mexican teachers, they reasoned, they could make Dalton more attractive for families to come across the border. The new teachers could help the Mexican kids learn English and the American kids learn Spanish...
...Durkan Patterned Carpet, where he's in quality control, he and his wife bought a nice three-bedroom house for $49,000. And Thomas Durkan III, he says, orchestrated the donation of private land and helped raise $1 million for the construction of a soccer complex used primarily by Mexican families...