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Increasingly, when people want to go to America--illegally, that is--the Dominican Republic is where they go first. There are dozens of coastal towns just like Las Lisas where the chief industry--sometimes the sole industry--is illegal immigration. It is impossible to say exactly how many thousands of people arrive in the U.S. through the Dominican Republic each year, because official surveillance and interdiction are so spotty. The U.S. Border Patrol and other law-enforcement agencies made 4,364 arrests in the area last year, but that figure bears little relation to the number of people flooding...
...explanations for more cures, it becomes increasingly difficult to name something a miracle. He regrets the trend and, without relaxing his own stringent standards, suggests that the church give more importance to instances where the divine can be said to have been present in a cure, without being its sole explanation. "Ordinary Christians want to see the action of God," he says bluntly. "People are hungry for signs...
...only a matter of time before that kind of money attracted bounty hunters. In fact, this burgeoning line of business has exploded in recent years. Before 1988 there were no firms whose sole purpose was collecting child support; today there are an estimated 150. The print ad for one of the largest, Find Dad, Inc., in California, is only slightly slicker than most: "He's enjoying his second childhood. Your kids are having trouble getting through their first." For 27% of any recovered money, Find Dad promises to do just that...
WHEN TERRENCE MCNALLY'S Love! Valour! Compassion! transferred from off-Broadway's Manhattan Theatre Club to the Walter Kerr Theater last month, it instantly took on a special status: it became the sole new straight play on Broadway, and only the third to open there all season (out of 15 new productions in total). McNally rightly saw the distinction as dubious. "I take very little pleasure in it," he told a luncheon of the American Theater Wing shortly afterwards. "I wish there were 30 new plays on Broadway...
Jackie Robinson was the athlete who broke American professional sports' color barrier, and his dignity crystallized the injustice of segregation. Curt Flood's 1969 challenge of the reserve clause (under which the team reserves the sole right to negotiate with a player for the following year(s)), although ultimately unsuccessful, was a revolutionary step in the direction of player freedom...