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Moreover, the law has failed to forestall an epidemic of outright fraud and abuse. The Western regional INS office, which covers California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii and Guam, has handed out $1 million in fines to heedless employers in the past two years. But with 400 agents in the region, the INS hardly has the manpower to wage a serious crackdown and thus goes after only the most blatant offenders -- and many companies and illegal aliens are willing to take their chances. A survey by the University of California at San Diego's Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, for example, found...
...biggest customers, using the network of banks and thrifts to finance ventures in which he held hidden interests. "He saw the thrifts as one big gold mine, an endless pit of money," says Joseph Cage, a U.S. Attorney in Louisiana who prosecuted Beebe. Rather than exert his ownership outright, Beebe often held control behind the scenes. One of his tactics was to stake friends like the high-flying financier Don Dixon, who relied on Beebe's backing to acquire Texas-based Vernon Savings & Loan in 1982 and rode the institution to a spectacular collapse...
Although Harvard cannot win the regular-season national or Ivy titles outright, a victory over Yale will still keep one jewel of the crown Crimson...
...NOTEBOOK: Harvard faces Penn next week at Philadelphia, where it hopes to win the title outright. A win would give the Harvard seniors Ivy titles in all four of their years. "We should be able to beat Penn," freshman Stephanie Wired said...After Penn, the Crimson will attempt to defend its Easterns title the following weekend at Penn St. Cornell Coach Joe Lucia thinks this goal can be attained. "It should be a great meet, Lucia said. "I hope Harvard beats the scholarship schools and that the title stays in the league." As usual, the main competition will come from...
THAT such a positive conference should be held at Harvard is especially a promising development. In recent months, accusations of insensitivity or outright racial harassment have been leveled across campus. The most disturbing trend has been the recent proliferation of racist grafitti on campus...