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That's true. Candido and his pregnant 17-year-old wife, decent folk down on their luck, huddle in a makeshift camp in the canyon and climb out every morning to find work at a labor exchange. But the sight of hungry Mexicans spooks Kyra's clients, and she sees to it that the exchange is shut. Delaney's liberal beliefs crumble, and he votes with other residents to build a wall, with a gate, around their development. The author, mistrusting his skill and the reader's acuteness, relentlessly flashes irony alerts. Candido gets work constructing the wall, knowing well...
...decision to go ahead with Senate Ruby Ridge hearings despite an Administration request to delay until its criminal investigation is complete "is both understandable and political," saysTIME's Elaine Shannon."As a presidential candidate, Specter of course wants to maximize his television exposure; but we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that this murky, deeply troubling incident has yet to be adequately investigated, and the Justice Department could be accused of stonewalling. Members of Congress are legitimately under pressure to examine this incident." Nonetheless, if the hearings are held this fall, many witnesses will likely cite the ongoing criminal...
...look up DuBois' great book The Souls of Black Folk and admire again its rolling thunder: "After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world--a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world ... One ever feels his twoness,--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings ." Will DuBois' famous refrain--"the problem of the Twentieth Century...
...benefit to me. I met a girl on Prodigy who is also 16, and we talked for a while online, got to calling each other on the phone and finally, I went to her sweet-16 party and met her face to face. We fell in love at first sight. I know there are other stories like mine that prove cyberspace is not all perverts, psychos and child molesters. Good things can come of it. DAVID KIRSCHNER Coral Springs, Florida Via America Online...
...description of a football game between the guards and inmates at the correctional facility: "The two front lines banged at each other hard, blood, saliva and tiny pieces of flesh flying through the air." The watching crowd of upstate locals "sat stunned into eerie silence, stilled by the sight of a field filled with red-tinged grass. The spectators were left with little else to do but watch the drama play itself...