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...ruling council. This Mega-City is fascism as fashion statement; Dredd's uniform has enough leather and metal to stock an S&M boutique. But he's just a soldier for hire, or a star looking for his next project. Dredd's warped mirror image is a renegade named Rico (Armand Assante), as dangerous to Dredd as the next action film on the release schedule. "Guilt and innocence--it's a matter of timing," Rico says. He could be describing the difference between summer hit and flop...
...meet groups of would-be immigrants arriving from Santo Domingo and direct them to hiding places in safe houses and the surrounding jungle. Makeshift boats--weighted down by rocks and submerged in the stream near town--are waiting to take the travelers to the U.S. commonwealth of Puerto Rico, where they can easily board a flight to New York City. Even the chickens have a role in this secret commerce: three times a day a boy delivers slaughtered birds and boxes of white rice to the refugees, who may wait days or weeks for their boat to leave...
...shifted to this point of less resistance. The Dominican Republic's seven busy international airports and minimal visa restrictions make it difficult to monitor the comings and goings of foreigners. And once refugees weather the 110-mile boat trip from the northern coast of the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico, they can usually slip onto a U.S.-bound flight without a document check...
Pitcher Miguel Alicea compiled a 2-2 record in Puerto Rico last year, racking up 39 saves with...
...good may take some sleep and recovery. Diana I. Williams '95, who has been working since last spring on her thesis about New Orleans creoles of color in the age of Plessy v. Ferguson, said she hasn't slept in two days. She said she is leaving for Puerto Rico this weekend...