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...suddenly rising sharply. In a perverse way, IRCA has enhanced the smuggling trade by motivating undocumented aliens to plan their trips more carefully. Result: up to half the estimated 3 million illegals entering the U.S. successfully each year -- perhaps 25% of them permanently -- are now smuggler assisted. The sordid trade reaps as much as $1 billion in annual revenues and uses such tools as safe-house hotels, bribes, fake documents and even involuntary servitude...
ONCE the Fly Club is signed over to the appropriate people, inspection, cleaning and renovation will rid the building of its sordid past. We will decorate the walls with inspirational photographs and empowering feminist quotes, hold daily events centering around women and provide the support and encouragement that is sometimes lacking on this campus...
...United States has a sordid history of racial injustice and as recent events reveal, a sordid present. What about the future? Will the justice system ever become color blind? Will America ever become "free at last...
...rainbow coalition of white, black, Latin American, African, Caribbean and Asian criminals who are deluging the ghettos (and the rest of America) with drugs is motivated by greed, not genocide. They seek to extract maximum profits from their sordid business -- and if some of their customers fatally overdose themselves or are gunned down in turf battles between dealers, so be it. Whatever the drug pushers' goal may be, blacks could thwart them by the simple expedient of refusing to use drugs. The question is whether they will be self-interested enough to reject deluded genocide theories and face...
Reporters, like vampires, feed on human blood. Tales of tragedy, mayhem and murder are the daily stuff of front-page headlines and breathless TV newscasts. But journalists rarely restrict their accounts to the sordid, unadorned facts. If the victims of such incidents are sufficiently wealthy, virtuous or beautiful, they are often turned into martyred saints in the epic battle between good and bad. Thus the spectacle of a wounded husband, with a dying pregnant wife at his side, desperately calling for help in a reputedly dangerous Boston neighborhood, inevitably set editors' pulses racing...