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Much of the conversation at such gatherings centers on who has the fanciest new device, a fascination that has earned Indio the nickname Out-do Resorts. "There's a lot of competition over who has the most 'wow,'" says Manuel Ortega, 37, of Riverdale, Calif., whose bus has six TV sets, including one that rises out of the dinette table. This season, however, the biggest wow is elicited by the three or four double slides that have rolled into camp. In this configuration, two compartments, one in the parlor and another in the bedroom, extend outward when...
...communities like Marshalltown to work in meat-packing plants. Marshalltown (pop. 26,000) became 12% Hispanic overnight. The monocultural town was totally unprepared. Schools struggled to cope with non-English speakers. A methamphetamine industry sprang up, which police blamed on Mexican gangs. Most of the new arrivals, like Gilberto Ortega, 36, from El Salvador, toiled long hours at jobs nobody else wanted. Ortega, a meatcutter, supported his wife and two children on $9 an hour. He says he has been too busy to learn English...
...double cross has a certain logic in its treachery--bad turns on bad; injustice eats its own offspring; nobody gets off free. But it was to be almost a year before detectives from the sheriff's department worked out what happened that Saturday night, Nov. 20, 1999, on Ortega Highway in Orange County. Along the way a lot was discovered about Ken Stahl's secretive life, Carolyn's Good Samaritan reputation with her patients and the long criminal history of a man called "the Weasel...
Sometimes the known is the unknown. On the way back from dinner, Stahl drove up Ortega Highway, which runs from San Juan Capistrano east over the hills to Riverside, about 30 miles from their home. The detectives think Godley, a.k.a. Satton, was waiting for the car, a silver 1996 Dodge Stratus. They theorize that Godley decided to kill both people in the car, either to eliminate all witnesses or because he was jealous of Stahl's affair with Vasco--or both. "Ken didn't see it coming," says Villalobos. "He thought he was taking care of her, and then--boom...
Noah Z. Seton '00 recently met Natalie Portman '03. "It's nice to meet another campus celebrity," Seton told the actress... A bearded Christopher Ortega '97 was spotted wandering the Widener stacks, examining pictures of girlfriend Nicole Torraco '00. "She looks so happy," Ortega sighed. "I think I need lights for my Christmas tree," Torraco said later... P. C. Bright '01 likes live chickens... Cary P. McClelland '02 likes Katherine D. Earls '00... Final sections for General Education 105, "The Literature of Social Reflection" met this week. "I loved that class," gushed Courtney D. Rein '00, tears in her eyes...