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There is a hellish scene in the new Colombian film Paraiso Travel that should be watched by any American who has ever hired illegal immigrants -and, for that matter, any American who has ever shouted for their deportation. A group of weary Colombian migrants, having waded across a rushing river from Guatemala to Mexico, is violently set upon by the Maras, bloodthirsty gangbangers who prowl that border corridor. Men are shot, women are raped, children are terrorized. It's an almost daily occurrence of migrant life in this hemisphere, and the film captures it with haunting authenticity...
...They had one really good race. I watched it with Megan [Watson]. We thought they were way too far right.” The B division boat took some chances in their Sunday triumph, starting the race as the lone boat on the right side of the river, anticipating a favorable shift in wind direction. “We did a few things that the coach didn’t exactly approve of,” Bock said. “Luckily, it paid off. Technically, that shouldn’t have worked.” Bock and Powers...
...parents caught glimpses of the athletic complex, the river houses, and the Yard, Rodgers punctuated the run with information about the sites...
...Georgia has turned its attention north to the state boundary it says it never ratified and the billions of gallons of water just out of reach on the other side. "Georgia not only has legal and historical claim to the Tennessee River, but it has an ecological one because all of Northwest Georgia drains into the Tennessee River," Georgia State Sen. David Shafer told the Chattanooga Times-Free Press...
Instead of envisioning pipelines running from the Tennessee River to Atlanta, Tennessee official say their counterparts to the south should devote their time and money to conserving water and restricting growth. Moving water from the Tennessee River to Atlanta would not only need approval from Tennessee, but also from federal authorities including the Tennessee Valley Authority, which operates several nuclear power plants on the Tennessee River. Such approval is doubtful, and even if it were forthcoming, the water would then have to be piped over several mountains...