Word: consulate
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...1950s' Operation Wetback. Now California's Proposition 187, aimed at denying education and health services to undocumented immigrants, is seen as an exercise in ethnic cleansing. ``History is taught one way in Mexico and another way in the U.S.,'' says former Public Education Secretary Jose Angel Pescador Osuna, consul in Los Angeles. ``It is our psychological trauma that the U.S. robbed us. But in the U.S. textbooks portray Mexicans as bandits who invaded Texas...
Also participating on the political panel will be: Ambassador Richard Williams, former U.S. consul general to Hong Kong; Dr. Allen Lee Pang Fei, chair of the Liberal Party in Hong Kong; Bing Leung, vice-chair of Hong Kong's Democratic Party, and Jonathan Mirsky, East Asian correspondent for the London Times...
...Norwegian government is putting on a brave face over what must be pure disgust. The Acting Consul General in New York told the Times that. "It was the right idea and we tried it. It didn't have the chance to build a stable group of people who would use it and protect it. But we sent the right message: Sports is not only for the entertainment of rich adults. Sports is for the development of society," Some development...
There's pro-consul Marc Anatomy (Thomas I. Parks '96), who travels to Egypt and falls in love with nymphomaniacal Queen Neferenuff (Michael A. Stone '95). There's Nefferenuff's court: tough Leda Uvdapak (Evan M. Sandman '96), pothead handmaiden Isis Melting (Harris Hartman '95), soothsayer Horace Cope (Mark H. Baskin '95), architect Ramses Pointakross (Mark R. Fish...
...everyone is convinced of Miami's grand scheme for the future. The trade sector is, to a large extent, based on glorified mom-and-pop businesses offering low-paying service jobs. "Miami is not the capital of Latin America," German Consul General Klaus Sommer says dismissively. "The Germans have billions in Argentina, Brazil, Chile. You don't need an agent sitting in Miami...