Word: mexico
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...fakes. "The whole thing is absolutely baloney," he says. "There are thousands of different markings on these coins, and no one could ever counterfeit one of them because they are all different. These coins are absolutely real." A similar controversy over silver dollars was resolved after Fisher flew to Mexico City and searched colonial dungeons to find the original dies from which the coins were struck. "I may have to go to Mexico again and look at the dies to prove these coins are real," says Fisher. "But I will be vindicated...
Weld is currently a counsel to McDermott, Will and Emery in its Boston and New York offices. He resigned as governor of Massachusetts last summer to pursue his nomination as Ambassador to Mexico...
DIED. OCTAVIO PAZ, 84, Mexico's prolific man of letters who plumbed the mythic depths of his country's psyche in more than 40 volumes of poems and essays; of undisclosed causes; in Mexico City. Using his hybrid heritage (part Spanish, part Indian) as his starting point, Paz wrote The Labyrinth of Solitude, considered the seminal book on the Mexican mind-set. His starkly haunting metaphors of apathy and isolation made enemies among his countrymen but moved readers and, eventually, won him the Nobel Prize...
...overcast afternoon, in a modest room in Minneapolis, 23 teenagers are in earnest conversation with one another--and with the Lord. "Would you pray for my brother so that he can raise money to go [on a preaching trip] to Mexico?" asks a young woman. "Our church group is visiting juvenile-detention centers, and some are scared to go," explains a boy. "Pray that God will lay a burden on people's hearts for this...
...Jonesboro tragedy represents an urgent call for the people of the U.S. When two little boys are capable of committing such a horrendous act, it is a sign that the roots supporting the whole of American society are rotten. LUIS GARRIDO Mexico City...