Sigourney Weaver's Ripley stands in front of the squad of ten cocky, poised space marines. They laugh and joke, oozing bravado and testosterone -- even the women. As the shavetail lieutenant lays out ...

Vargas, who immigrated to the San Francisco Bay Area illegally in 1993, remembers the words “resident alien” being stamped on a fraudulent green card his grandfather bought him. Several years later, ...