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...northern migration has taken its toll on nuclear family life in towns like Tuxpan. Countless men have girlfriends in the north, while their wives and children remain in the south. And the women left behind in Mexico are faced with the same temptations. Workers in the U.S. regard this threat with black humor. The idea that there's a guy who's back home in Mexico drinking your beer, sleeping with your wife and spending your hard-earned money looms large in their mythology. He has even been given a name: Sancho. Taking a break from sodding a lawn...
Washington, having heard the call, is creaking into action. President George W. Bush has made it a New Year's resolution to pass a guest-worker program, coupled with robust policing of the border. Under his proposal, undocumented workers already in the U.S. would register here, work for as many as six more years and then return to their native country to reapply if they want to continue living in the U.S. Immigrant advocates oppose the idea, saying that a full amnesty giving permanent legal status is the only practical way to deal with the estimated 11 million illegal aliens...
...favor guest-worker registration for those already here...
...Tatsumi's characters include the sewer worker who encounters aborted fetuses, the pornographic film projectionist whose only turn-on is bathroom wall art and a metal puncher who sacrifices his hand for the insurance money. Some stories, like the titular one, are just enigmatic portraits of modern strife. In it, the Push Man, a student who earns extra money by cramming people into subway trains during rush hours, has the tables turned on him when he meets a sexually aggressive woman whose equally voracious girlfriends work him into a corner and tear his clothes off. The story ends...
...themselves huge paychecks, ordinary people the world over have cause to complain about being locked out of the party. "The top of the house shouldn't continue to award itself when the folks on the lower end of the ladder suffer," says C. William Jones, a retired telephone-company worker in Easton, Maryland, who was so incensed about his pension and health-care benefits being cut that he helped start a protest group called BellTel Retirees. It now has more than 100,000 members and mainly communicates online...