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Seaboard's solution: recruit Hispanic laborers from other areas of the U.S. as well as from Mexico and Central American countries like Guatemala. Soon the recently arrived immigrants began to stream into Albert Lea--with no money and no place to stay. It was a practice Seaboard would repeat in other towns, in other states...
...miles north of Amarillo, Texas, and 500 miles from the Mexican border. The nearest bus stops are in Liberal, Kans., 40 miles to the north, and Stratford, Texas, 40 miles to the south. As was the case in Albert Lea, the freshly arrived immigrants had no place to stay, and the town that had never had a homeless shelter was forced to open one. Volunteers cleaned, repaired and painted a vacant motel. Unemployed individuals and families could stay up to one week at a cost of $10 a day, which included two meals. If they found work--largely at Seaboard...
...together one more time." It is this communion that sustains Marian Moschetti, a lapsed Catholic who rediscovered her faith five years ago. "I saw the true spirit of Christ embodied in this community," she says. "Corpus Christi isn't a building. It isn't bricks and mortar. I will stay with this church...
...stories such as Cortes Island, The Children Stay and Rich As Stink, women are stretched beyond the limits of convention by passion and circumstance. They are not complainers. Reticence is the pervading style of Munro's rural Ontario, where "drawbacks and adversity were not to be noticed, not to be distinguished from their opposites." Munro breaks the silence, but without devaluing the style. Not many writers can pull this off. It takes a balance of compassion and detachment worthy of Minerva, the goddess of wisdom...
...weeks, the general has been desperately trying to avoid extradition to Spain where he faces a series of serious criminal charges stemming from his years of authoritarian rule. A continued stay in the hospital had obviously helped the General pursue his strategy of fight and delay, but no more: His next British court date is set for December 11. For the now-well patient, it may be time -- if not to open all the dossiers -- at least to open all the windows and welcome in that London...