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Byline: Arian Campo-Flores How the economic meltdown has changed the calculus. And what you can do about it. For years, Tom and Lori Lapin dutifully prepared for their two sons' [...]

Byline: Gretel C. Kovach and Arian Campo-Flores A brutal death has caused long-simmering racial tensions to flare anew. To his loved ones in Paris, Texas, Brandon McClelland was affectionately known [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores Tom Slade, a former Florida GOP chair, was getting about five calls a day last week from fellow Republicans saying the same thing: 'Do something.' The source [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores And now all the richest American universities are rethinking financial aid. Jennie D'Amico first heard the news in an ecstatic e-mail from her father in Brewer, Maine. [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores Harvard dramatically overhauled its aid rules. Other colleges had to follow to compete for top students. How to make sense of it all. Jennie D'Amico first heard [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores And Catharine Skipp; With Anne Underwood Police say her deception set off the FLDS raid. Prank or personality disorder? When Flora Jessop answered her phone on the [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores Latinos could prove pivotal come November, but they're frequently mischaracterized. Four myths: 1. All they care about is immigration. In fact, immigration typically ranks far down the [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores And Andrew Murr The fence is coming, and it's causing Texas-size problems for the folks of one city in particular. CLOSE CALL: The proposed path of the [...]

Byline: Catharine Skipp And Arian Campo-Flores Like most university recruiters who target Hispanic students, Christina Diaz crisscrosses the country, attending college fairs and chatting up potential applicants. Except in her [...]

Byline: Gretel C. Kovach And Arian Campo-Flores In the largest child-welfare intervention in Texas history, authorities last week raided the Eldorado ranch of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), [...]

Byline: Gretel C. Kovach and Arian Campo-Flores It wasn't the first time the 12-year-old Dallas girl had disappeared. In 2006, after flunking the fifth grade, she ran away out of [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores And Sarah Kliff; With Suzanne Smalley In New York Primaries in Indiana and North Carolina on May 6 may be the last chance to end the Dem [...]

Byline: Amy Green and Arian Campo-Flores Amid the gloom of the real-estate downturn, one group has cause to celebrate: conservationists. Rising housing inventories and slackening demand are causing some developers [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores Clinton's chances may come down to Latino support in the Lone Star State. This was one fired-up crowd. At a rally for Sen. Hillary Clinton at St. [...]

Byline: Stephen Glain (John Sparks Amy Green and Arian Campo-Flores Jessica Bennett From SLATE.com) GLOBAL POLITICS Misplaying the Money Game Economic sanctions are starting to backfire on Washington. Last year [...]

Byline: Amy Green and Arian Campo-Flores You can pack light for this trip. The latest offering from Source Events, a Miami Beach-based gay adventure-travel company, is billed as the first [...]

Byline: Lynn Waddell and Arian Campo-Flores (With Julie Scelfo) After a lifetime of agonizing over his gender identity, Steven Stanton decided to become a woman about two years ago. 'It [...]

Byline: Catharine Skipp and Arian Campo-Flores The scandal has a titillating mix: cheerleaders, soldiers, booze, sex. Police say Jill Moore, a high-school cheerleading coach in Ware Shoals, S.C., bought alcohol [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores At first glance, the congregation gathered in a warehouse in Doral, Fla., seems like a typical Hispanic evangelical group. There's the 10-piece band, the singing and swaying, [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores and Evan Thomas (With Ellen F. Harris, Sarah Hutchins and Richie Frohlichstein in Missouri, Andrew Murr in Los Angeles and Eve Conant and Steve Tuttle in Washington) [...]

Byline: Gretel C. Kovach and Arian Campo-Flores One photograph shows a cheerleaderin a risque pose, offering a glimpse of her panties. Another features a bikini-clad teen sharing a bottle of [...]

Byline: Lynn Waddell and Arian Campo-Flores The families of Danny Rolling's murder victims filed into the execution viewing room in Starke, Fla., last week. The curtains were pulled back, and [...]

Byline: Carmen Gentile and Arian Campo-Flores The corpses told much of the story, or at least this much: the parents died trying to protect their children. Last Friday morning, a [...]

Byline: Joseph Contreras and Arian Campo-Flores (With Carmen Gentile in Miami) Ordinary Cubans could only wonder whether Fidel Castro was alive or dead. They had no news photos of their [...]

Byline: Catharine Skipp and Arian Campo-Flores (With Audrey Garza-Morton) Lost in the fog of dementia, Ireatha Watson, 89, seemed unaware of the mounting tension as Hurricane Katrina roared toward New [...]

Byline: Lynn Waddell and Arian Campo-Flores Authorities have gained a new high-tech tool to keep track of sex offenders: the Sex Offender Registry and Identification System (SORIS), a biometric database [...]

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Byline: Catharine Skipp and Arian Campo-Flores The 10-foot alligator poised on the banks of a canal near Miami last Thursday had set off a frenzy. Traffic on the nearby freeway [...]