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This morning, truck No. 11 in line to the U.S. belongs to Martin Castano. His dented Chevy pickup, loaded with pinatas shaped like Betty Boop and Winnie the Pooh, is dwarfed next to a semi carrying 15 tons of yellow bulldozer claws. Castano usually makes the trip twice a day and can pocket $150 each time. But because it would be easy to stuff marijuana inside Betty or Winnie, he is always waved over for inspection. Castano says he trusts his 12 employees to stay away from the drug smugglers, but he pays his men only $50 a week...
...WORLD TRADE BRIDGE The last semi, No. 3,902 for the day, reaches the checkpoint of the World Trade Bridge. Its load: 45 pieces of wrought-iron furniture, headed for the patios of the North...
...Ghosh's 17-15 decision over Dan Rutherford in the final game wasn't the only Tiger-bashing that will be remembered. Two weeks later, Abraham outlasted eventual national champion Peter Yik to lead Harvard to a 6-3 victory over Princeton in the semi-finals of the national team championships...
Instead of opening the regatta with heats to determine placement in semi-finals, the repechage or the Grand Final, Henley is based upon head-to-head competition. All of the races are rowed between two boats and the winner of the race goes on to the next round. So with 32 entries in the Temple Challenge Cup, the winner of the event would win six races...
...remnant of an older Harvard—compel us to take time from our busy schedules and private intellectual musings to chat, to remember what it’s like to be civil. Or not so civil—as in relations between The Crimson and a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. Either way, tradition ensures there’s a secure foundation under our feet as we go about questioning, criticizing and, on occasion, provoking change...