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...year-old kingpin of the Guadalajara drug cartel. But Camarena's comrades in the DEA did not believe that the reckless, illiterate "Rafa" had acted alone. The agents suspected the brains behind the complex crime were members of Mexico's power elite, who had everything to lose from the relentless probing of Camarena and his partners into the muck of the Mexican narcotics trade...
...only are all the sachems of the nation's football tribes, living and dead, on hand for the Super Bowl, but bull corpocrats, not-yet indicted politicians and assorted overweeners from every power nexus in the nation have massed here, drawn to sport's most relentless weeklong party by forces they do not understand. They wear suits that are the worsted equivalent of stretch limos. Around these grandees, trophy wives orbit glossily. Some of them know the names of the teams ("The Denver, uh, Cowboys?"). Lacquered geishas trucked in for the occasion balance vaselike on bar stools...
Unfortunately, the relentless pursuit of this vision leaves little room for more relevant problems that undergraduates may face. The focus on graduate programs implicitly devalues the concerns of undergraduate women...
Frustrated by the slow pace of civil rights and the relentless spread of AIDS, activists adopt a fierce tactic to expose closeted gay politicians and clergy who obstruct the movement...
...Robert Campeau, the American dream that seemed so alluring from north of the border has turned into a nightmare. A relentless overachiever, Campeau once noted how, as a boy in the bleak mining town of Sudbury, Ont., "I thought any house with indoor plumbing was a palace, and I hated the people who lived there." At 14 he became a machinist's apprentice, using the baptismal certificate of a dead older brother to pass for 16. "You have to push yourself to the front of the line," Campeau later noted. He built his first house after World...