Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson Less experienced players are often confused by the seemingly interminable number of conventions that have crept into competitive bridge in recent years. When asked, I always advise that, with a few exceptions, they forget about these gadgets until they have acquired the basic principles and then slowly […]
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A Fling With Fred By Sandy Olson Nancy gave Fred thirty days to decide about leaving his wife. It started as a fling, when they met up at their fortieth high school reunion. Nancy was not a stranger to making quick connections with men. Though married, she took trips alone and had little adventures
Father Hunting In the village of my child all my fathers were Captains and Conductors, men and their workings were forever coming home and leaving. In my village, there were long stretches of empty beach, great white seagulls always out of reach undertows that carried sand castles out to sea My Bogart Daddy became
Baja Brownies By Mikel MillerDonMiguel2@ymail.com On August 21, 2009, Mexico decriminalized personal possession of less than five grams of marijuana. Boomer–an expat living on the Baja Peninsula–decided to try some pot right away. He says his first experience was sharing a joint, and most of his friends in northern Baja were stunned to learn
Dark Encounter By Kathy Price From a distance, I could see the old woman leaning in against the door, smacking it with her open hand, calling out to someone, unseen, inside. Her filthy, ragged dress hung off her spare frame and she radiated desperation. Curious, I continued to watch her as I approached down
NORTH AMERICA: An Oil and Gas Powerhouse By Marita NoonEdited by Frank Callom North America Oil and Gas reserves is growing exponentially mainly because of better sourcing and drilling techniques. Look to Mexico for an example. Mexico has huge oil-and-gas reserves–estimated at 115bn barrels of oil equivalent, comparable to Kuwait’s—but lacks the technology to
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The Ojo Internet Mailbox (Wherein we publish some comments about our previous issues.) “AMERICAN” IS NOT A LANGUAGE! B. Garrison You have chosen a few, isolated instances and used those to paint every conservative with the same broad brush. You have a forum in this magazine to present your point of view, but instead
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez For more editorials, visit:http://thedarksideofthedream.com OUR AMERICA—A Hispanic History of the United States (With some quotes by Allen Barra, who reviewed the book for several outlets in the U.S.) A fascinating book has recently come our way that does much to dispel many of the beliefs that millions of citizens
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MOCTEZUMA—The Emperor By Herbert W. Piekow The chronicles of Moctezuma´s life are full of contradictions, including the more than half dozen spellings of his name. Although there are several spellings of Moctezuma, including those of Cortéz and Bernal Diaz del Castillo, both of whom knew the Emperor; each of the accepted translations of the
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