The Foreign Service Journal, October 2007

Cover I
Contents 3
Focus on the U.S. Borders 13
Bridges, Barriers or Both? The U.S. Borders 13
A View from the South 17
Cultural Quirks & Tasty Treasures: The Two Laredos 23
The Great Tijuana Experience 26
Consulate Nogales' Deadly Desert 29
Embracing Change on the U.S.-Mexico Border 33
Ontario & the U.S.: Close Ties, Complex Issues 35
A Vancouver Vignette 38
Foreign Assignment in the United States 40
Canadians: A Border People 44
FS Fiction 49
Best Served Cold 49
Features 51
A Foreign Service Murder 51
Condemned to Endless Struggle? The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 56
AFSA News 61
AFSA's Protest Leads to New Hearing 61
Essay Contest Introduces FS to Students 61
AFSA Meets with Secretary Rice 61
Briefs: FS Women's Forum 62
VP State: Support for Separated Families 63
VP Retirees: Taking a Fresh Look 64
Legislative Affairs Update 65
VP USAID: Penny Wise, Pound Foolish 66
AFSA Establishes Legal Defense Fund 69
Issue Brief: Training Diplomats 70
Columns 5
President's Views—The Cinderella Service 5
Reflections—Slava in Mexico 84
Departments 6
Letters 6
Cybernotes 9
Books 77
Ad Index 82

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