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...Arellanos have a weakness, it may be their failure to see that even the border's notorious criminal culture eventually has its limits. It's true that since the Wild West days, when Billy the Kid wintered in El Paso and Juarez, border natives have often been a law unto themselves--a product of their historic, and justified, resentment of racist gringos to the north and haughty chilangos (Mexico City residents) to the south, who sneered at the border for being neither American nor Mexican enough. "That identity crisis and alienation grew into the violent face of the border," says...
...Having rescued Bridget from the hands of the media and delivered her unto Gary Busey, I sense that I have reached the pinnacle of this party, and head out into the Beverly Hills night air for my final encounter of the night...
...hate the sin, love the sinner." Those suffering from kleptomania also have strong desires for immoral acts; their situation is monstrously unfair, but that doesn't make theft morally acceptable. Using biology as an excuse promotes an image of homosexuals as sick, diseased unfortunates, as lepers to be ministered unto and "cured" through therapy and divine grace. Many gays find these portrayals highly insulting, but they will not go away so long as biology is the only defense...
...Customs Agency and ATF are very complex. They are agencies that are worlds unto themselves, much like the many departments and schools at Harvard," she said. "In a way, running the Treasury Department is analogous to running a big university...
...took the money and tipped off the Indians. So we trained our own manpower." In other words, the Pakistani militants don't always trust the Kashmiris on whose behalf they are waging this war. The Pakistani militancy, which had its roots in the Afghan war, is now an institution unto itself...