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...left Tijuana at 6 p.m. and reached his sister in Los Angeles by 8 a.m. the next day. But after the border crackdowns of the mid-1990s, he has had to seek out new routes. In 1999 he flew from Mexico City to Montreal and went to a random downtown McDonald's, where he thought he could bump into Hispanics. If he found some Mexicans there, he reasoned, one of them would know how to sneak across the nearby U.S. border. Before long, he got a ride to a secluded place in the woods just north of the border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Life of the Migrants Next Door | 1/29/2006 | See Source »

...student who has ever wondered how Mather House’s next-door, red-towered brick beauty evolved into the bustling community it is today should have his questions answered this spring. This house seminar, however, is not a simply the random creation of IBM Professor of Business and Government Roger B. Porter, nor is the course an underhanded attempt to boost Dunster’s reputation and House pride. Instead, “Histories of Dunster House” is actually being offered as a celebration of the House’s 75th anniversary as a residential community...

Author: By Emily J. Nelson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ten Notable Courses for the Spring Semester | 1/29/2006 | See Source »

...Mills sample group was hardly random, consisting principally of white women of the same age who attended the same college. Still, they were 123 different individuals, and the results were nonetheless uniform. "People generally describe personality change in middle age as a midlife crisis, with all its negative connotations," says Soto. "In the Mills women, the change was positive--a reorienting, not a crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Staying Sharp: The Surprising Power of the Aging Brain | 1/13/2006 | See Source »

...Refugees (UNHCR). The leaders of the sit-in had one important demand: to be processed for transfer to a Western country. They refused any half-measure, especially being returned to Darfur in southern Sudan; or to be resettled in Egypt, where they say they suffer from discrimination and random arrest. The trouble was, for months, the UNHCR had declined to talk directly to the protesters in the garden. The Sudanese minister of Foreign Affairs, Ali Ahmed Korti, on a visit to Cairo, urged the Sudanese to return home. All to no avail. At one point, the refugees threatened to storm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death in Cairo: Anatomy of a Debacle | 12/31/2005 | See Source »

...they pretty much go along these lines: Isn’t incessantly quoting movies slightly annoying and kind of old? Did you just get lazy writing your list and turn desperately to imdb.com in the throes of despair? Are you, Marianne F. Kaletzky ’08, really random, slightly weird, and completely underqualified to be on the Crimson? Why on earth should I read a list about some stupid movie I don’t really care about...

Author: By Vinita M. Alexander, Ben B. Chung, Daniel J. Hemel, Marianne F. Kaletzky, Kristina M. Moore, Will B. Payne, Abe J. Riesman, and Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Executive Decisions | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

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