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Since Sept. 11, the INS has set about pulling back the welcome mat. But doing so requires an abrupt shift in the agency's mission, which for the past decade has been informed by conflicting mandates. On the one hand, the U.S. has made a show of plugging up the Mexican border to keep out migrant workers and drug smugglers. Yet it gives much less public scrutiny to the millions who enter the country by air. Once foreigners reach American soil unlawfully, the INS, under pressure from industries that depend on cheap labor, does next to nothing to throw them...
...kind of dark, so I poked it and blood squirted up—not just from the left side but everywhere,” Evan adds. Section wasn’t going to happen, so Evan went back to his room and tried to shift the toenail back in place. But it just slid around, and he covered his foot and flip-flops in blood. So he went into the shower to wash it off and fainted from loss of blood...
...Seattle Supersonics implode, causing a shift in the balance of power in the West. Finally fed up with playing for a losing team that just five years ago won 64 games, and no longer able to deal with Vin Baker (i.e. the guy who cried after C-Webb taunted him last year), Gary Payton demands a trade. The Minnesota Timberwolves, hot in pursuit of The Glove since the summer, execute a long anticipated deal with the Sonics that sends Terrell Brandon and Wally Szczerbiak to Seattle in exchange for Payton. Gary Payton and Kevin Garnett form the most potent...
...political-military equation. But the U.S. may be hoping over the next three weeks to alter the balance of power between the Taliban and its domestic foes, keeping its special forces poised, through the winter, if necessary, to take advantage of any opportunities offered by such a power shift to go in and get Bin Laden and his henchmen...
...costs to subsidize these few units are shifted to the market-rate units,” King says, adding that the cost shift means that middle-income people can’t afford the other apartments in the building...