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… the end of August, Juárez eclipsed Caracas, Venezuela, to become the murder capital of the world. To address this … these stories portray a city in a tailspin, but they also hint at the role of the United States in this crisis. … it off. “I don’t know what that says about the online audience,” Obama joked. The crowd laughed along, but it was an …

… pasts they arrive from and the futures they promise if we become so bold as to forget that the stories we tell to scare … la cerveza más fina —was rumored to contain a special ingredient: urine. This was, of course, untrue, but the rumor … the cheap now that it has lost its hermetic seal, but you also have to accept the potential for food poisoning. It’s …

… Agenda for a Second Term Realistic liberals, or practical progressives, will not expect President … Roosevelt’s second administration to achieve the income of $4,870 per family which the National Survey of … represented, or were capable of influencing, considerable bodies of public opinion. The scope of his victory may alter …

… the yards washed to the bare bones of rock. But they would come. Having deserted it for prosperity they had assumed the … staring upward at the old house—they had their pictures also, but this ungenteel decay, dropping suddenly after a … is it comes over you Southern people to let your old things die, to—” “Economics,” she interrupted drily, sleeking her …

… They served omelettes stingy with filling and magnificently complicated fruits—soaked mulberries, candied lemon, papaya crescents, cubes of heirloom melon, a … her eleven-dollar egg, scooped the white, and dipped toast points in the molten yellow, thinking nothing of it as I …