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  • In the middle of the world-wide war against terrorism, Congress has one good and palpable reason to concern itself with immigration reform: Illegal immigrants have fashioned a demi-monde, vast and ill-lit, within which our enemies can move with little fear of detection.

    Immigration 2010

  • Impressions Gallery, to 17 SepRCThe stories often precede the art in the case of Toulouse-Lautrec and Jane Avril, the starry double act of decadent demi-monde Paris.

    This week's new exhibitions 2011

  • Saved by their association with Warhol and their songs about the demi-monde.

    Matthew Yglesias » Endgame 2010

  • Does she obey her mother and follow her sister Rose into the demi-monde of prostitution or does she risk all and chart her own course?

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • Does she obey her mother and follow her sister Rose into the demi-monde of prostitution or does she risk all and chart her own course?

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • His circle is the hedge fund managers who payroll his party, rightwing media executives and the demi-monde of Tory dining clubs, Notting Hill salons and country house weekends, all of whom he knew could be relied to cheer him for his alleged bulldog spirit and Thatcher-like courage in saying No to European "plots".

    'As an act of crass stupidity, this has rarely been equalled' | Will Hutton 2011

  • Glenny's DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You, from Knopf, points out that at whatever level such crime is planned, the front-line operatives are all drawn from pretty much the same demi-monde.

    David Tereshchuk: Cyber Threats -- and Remedies -- Get Overdue Airing David Tereshchuk 2012

  • "Runyonesque" is the traditional adjective for such characters, although there are those who will tell you that the great chronicler of the New York demi-monde was not averse to heightening reality.

    Mystery men in hats? Boxing is a richer sport for it | Richard Williams 2012

  • Glenny's DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You, from Knopf, points out that at whatever level such crime is planned, the front-line operatives are all drawn from pretty much the same demi-monde.

    David Tereshchuk: Cyber Threats -- and Remedies -- Get Overdue Airing David Tereshchuk 2012

  • Incidental ironies of the slacker demi-monde or mundane abound, as a predominantly male lonely-hearts club seeks solace in the spiral groove.

    Punks, Painters, Prodigies, Pariahs Steve Dollar 2011

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    May 16, 2008