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Simpson said his work on immigration policy in the 1980s legalized nearly 3 million immigrants. "Without my [1986] bill, 3 million people would still be living in a closed, underground society," he said. "And they came out into...
Faster than you can say Mortal Kombat 2, I hopped over to this store downtown that feeds a growing underground market for the $65 chip that enables a U.S. PlayStation to run Japanese video games. It's illegal, of course. Totally voids the warranty too. But that's where I saw my opening. I figured the unexported stuff had to be educational, if only from a cultural standpoint. I've lived in Japan and can easily imagine the overly protective Sony-Japan marketers holding back all kinds of cool stuff, wrongly assuming that Americans just wouldn't understand it. Like...
...Chasing Amy Underground-comix artists pair off, then square off in this romantic tragicomedy. He's full of sweetly uncomprehending machismo, she's gay but nervously alert to other possibilities. And auteur Kevin Smith (Clerks) has the best Gen X files in the business, full of compassionate observations on its mysterious manners and morals...
Before the Civil War, Wilmington was a station on the Underground Railroad; today about 5% of its population is black. But its Quaker tradition of tolerance is being tested by uglier habits of mind, because the town has been buffeted by a series of racial incidents. In 1992 a bloody fight broke out between black and white students at an off-campus Wilmington College party. In 1993 and 1995 the Ku Klux Klan staged rallies at the courthouse; though fewer than 50 sympathizers showed up each time, black leaders were understandably concerned--and their fears were heightened last year when...
Thus it is that "Scud: The Disposable Assassin," an independent comic written and drawn by cartoonist Rob Schrab, is one of the latest comics to emerge from the comics underground into the glare of Hollywood's scrutiny. Creator Schrab attributes Scud's success to what he calls its multimedia appeal and its "surrealistically" funky style--both of which were probably factors in drawing Stone's attention in the first place...