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Editor’s Page Guest Editorial by David Pisarra(Reprinted by permission of the Santa Monica (Ca.)Daily Press.) Immigration Insanity   Illegal immigrant. It’s an emotionally packed phrase. My entire life I’ve heard derogatory terms for people who cross our borders in the dead of night, or sneak in with less than official papers. Many of them come

THE AMERICAN SCHOOL: The Scholastic “Pearl of the West” By Sofia Benitez   You wouldn’t guess it from looking at its weathered stone walls, but there’s a haven of learning inside this one city block enclosure in Colonia Providencia. Buoyant with the exuberant nature that characterizes the city, The American School Foundation of Guadalajara, A.C.

Savor Of Fig By Rob Mohr   Verna waits for him. Her body trembles in anticipation. She gasps for breath – then is still. He will come soon. In the cool of the late afternoon Peter maneuvers his 1958 Porsche into his narrow parking slot. He opens his car door slamming it into the new

DEAR PORTIA —Advice to the Lovelorn, the Overfed andThe Deeply Disgruntled   (Ed. Note: The Portia column has become one of our publication´s most controversial. Some people despise it, others are vastly amused. A few folks—including “Portia” herself—think she is sadly misunderstood. Hence, hoping to discover this acerbic lady’s more compassionate side, we elicited her

Once Upon A Time . . . By Herbert W. Piekow   The green-eyed Jesuit priest Father Bernardo came into Filomina´s life shortly after the death of both her parents, in the fall of 1925. At the time Filomina was married to the priest´s older brother Rafa.  Rafa sat at the dining table, his muddy

Front Row Center By Michael Warren Tickle Your FancyDevised and Compiled by Dave McIntosh & Barbara Clippinger   This LLT fundraiser was very entertaining and wildly funny in the best vaudeville tradition. It was a mongrel cross between Benny Hill’s salacious humor and Hollywood/ Las Vegas musical numbers. At the opening we saw the whole