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...soon as the sun goes down, hundreds of men, women and children, armed with water bottles, toothbrushes, toilet paper and perhaps phone numbers in Phoenix, or Denver or Los Angeles, come walking, running and crawling north across the border. Each night border-patrol agents round up roughly 500 and next morning return them to Mexico, only to have them start all over again the following evening. It's a never-ending drill, often with life-and-death stakes. The border patrol says 383 people died last year attempting to cross the border from Mexico. "Is this problem solvable?" asks Victor...
...ALIEN Tonight Manjarrez's agents caught 709 illegals. One was Aurelio Gonzales, 52, a farmer from Durango. He had crossed with his 20-year-old daughter, intending to link up with a sister who lives in Phoenix. Gonzales paid smugglers $800 for each passage, up sharply from the $300 it cost before the border patrol put in all its lights, cameras and extra agents. The father and daughter had been walking for two days, though their coyote had said it would take less than an hour to cross the border. "They lied to us," said Gonzales, sitting, exhausted...
...Nair '99-'01 and Siri K. Kvalvik will not be having a wedding in either of their hometowns. Jai, from Bethesda, Md., and Siri, from Phoenix, Ariz. didn't think it was fair to hold it in one of their hometowns and make one family fly halfway across the country, so they're having it in Belmont on June 30th to make both halves do the legwork...
...couple met in the summer of 1995 in Phoenix, when Jai's uncle introduced the two because they were both going to be first-years at colleges in Boston, Jai at Harvard and Siri at Wellesley College. Siri had spent the 1999-2000 academic year teaching English at a college in China, and while she was back visiting grad schools in April 2000, he proposed...
...Gwynne followed Groton with a brief stint as a radio operator during World War II and then headed to the New York Phoenix School of Design, where he planned to pursue his interest...