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...Compounding the problem is that there is no simple way to run a fence through these towns. In some places, families own property that actually straddles the line, a legacy of Spanish land grants older than Texas statehood. A new barrier might cut these spreads in two. Other properties run right up to the line. The University of Texas at Brownsville, for example, could find its campus golf course and part of the outfield of its baseball park amputated...
Indeed, in Naples itself, some seemed to confuse the issue of a dirty city with the complicated challenge of immigration. Giovanni, a 50-year-old newspaper vendor on Via Toledo near the city's Spanish Quarter said there is both widespread organized crime, but also petty crime, in Naples. It is the latter that makes him scared to go out at night. "Berlusconi had to do something. His credibility is riding on it," the Neapolitan native said. "The streets need to be cleaned up." He was referring not to the trash, but to immigrants...
...father, nor her firebrand of a grandmother, nor even her tragic youngest sister Erika, who killed herself in February 2007, got as much attention as Telma. Young, pretty, apparently good-hearted (she works for the Red Cross) and best of all unattached, Telma made perfect fodder for what the Spanish call "the pink press." When she showed up at the royal wedding looking lovely in a pale apricot suit and a broad-brimmed hat that would have done Lady Astor proud, the rags could barely contain their ecstasy...
Pity the shy, retiring girl whose sibling marries above her station. Yesterday a judge in Toledo, Spain ruled that, like it or not, Telma Ortiz, sister to Princess Letizia - and hence sister-in-law to the heir to the Spanish throne - is a public figure. According to the court, she is not entitled, therefore, to keep the paparazzi away...
...adds Peñafiel. "She's going to get exactly what she didn't want, which is to become more famous." Perhaps anticipating that effect, Ortiz and her partner have already put in a request with the Red Cross to return them to jobs in Asia, far from the Spanish paparazzi. Or at least that is what the pink press is reporting...