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...Sponge, which debuts in January, will publish writing, art and photos in a "fanzine" format--a rougher, less-structured form of magazine...
...part because of that very terrain. The vast majority of crossings now take place in and around urban areas. The crackdowns in San Diego and El Paso rely on enhanced ( technology, fences and manpower over short stretches of mostly urban zones, forcing immigrants to choke points in much rougher country. "If we can begin to deal with more crossers in canyons and rugged terrain," says Tucson, Arizona, sector chief Ronald Dowdy, "then we are playing on home court and by our rules. As the distances they must travel to get to transportation become larger, we become much more effective...
What Gingrich remains famous for is a willingness to play a much rougher political game than the one practiced by House minority leaders like the newly retired Bob Michel of Illinois, whom Gingrich has the votes to succeed if the G.O.P. remains a minority in that chamber. As his power has grown, he has even been willing to go after fellow Republicans when they weren't sufficiently radical, once calling Bob Dole "the tax collector of the welfare state." Gingrich insists now that he will have no trouble working with Dole, though he manages...
...neighborhood," complained a neighbor. Residents launched an unsuccessful petition drive to force Fields out. "All those kids are little troublemakers," said Carl McClinton, 23, who lives down the street. "This is the kind of neighborhood where we all look after each other's kids, but they are a rougher breed...
Even so, not many people might have noticed the videotape -- let alone bought it for $20 a copy -- if it had not been for its high-profile endorser or an earlier, shorter and rougher version called Bill Clinton's Circle of Power. Both were produced by a California organization calling itself Citizens for Honest Government. The Rev. Jerry Falwell duplicated the earlier Circle tape, and in May offered it to viewers of his cable-TV program Old Time Gospel Hour. (No one will give any figures on sales of either video.) Illinois Congressman Philip Crane, who unsuccessfully sought the Republican...