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...more vexed than Mexican President Vicente Fox, who is under pressure from the Bush Administration to crack down on the flow of drugs and illegal migrants across the Mexican border, amid fears that terrorists might exploit the lawlessness to sneak into the U.S. Mexico was infuriated by a recent U.S. alert about security dangers on the Mexican border and by a State Department report last month claiming that 90% of the cocaine hitting U.S. streets comes via Mexico, much higher than prior estimates of less than 75%. Mexico disputes the report, especially since it has made strides in breaking...
While the 2002 survey data faulting Harvard’s social life has received widespread media coverage in the past week, Harvard’s creation of a position specifically designed to help students have more fun was ridiculed in the press in January. Fox News host Bill O’Reilly called it his “Most Ridiculous Item of the Day.” But positions such as Corker’s are part of the student activities staff at many universities...
...HOUSE (FOX, TUESDAYS, 9 P.M. E.T.) Perhaps because watching one snide Brit isn't enough for America, Hugh Laurie has reaped the benefits of airing after Simon Cowell's American Idol. Laurie camouflages his English accent, but not that British gift for precise derision, as Dr. Gregory House, a brilliant but nasty diagnostician. House is so gifted not in spite of but because of his cynicism--his misanthropy and suspicion make him the ruthlessly probing skeptic his patients need. And Laurie's portrayal turns House from a routine disease-of-the-week exercise into a chess match with illness...
...longer simply talking or text messaging or gaming. We are living inside our phones, even decorating them like a home, with images we call wallpaper. Meanwhile, creative companies big and small are scurrying to persuade us to use our tiny screens in ways we haven't even imagined. Fox thinks we will want to watch 24: Conspiracy, a version of its hit TV show developed just for the phone. The NBA hopes basketball fans will use their phones to get game stats, follow their fantasy leagues and watch replays. One ambitious start-up is betting that people will...
...movement has aroused fears of vigilantism. Mexican President Vicente Fox has called groups like Simcox's "immigrant hunters," and President Bush said last week, "I'm against vigilantes." Jennifer Allen of the Border Action Network says she is preparing a human-rights complaint against the U.S. government for "failing to prosecute vigilante groups." Local officials in Arizona are nervous about hundreds of Minuteman volunteers coming from out of state, and Michael Nicely, head of the Border Patrol's Tucson sector, says the Minuteman Project will "hamper border safety...