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...time, it looked as if the Arellanos had gone over the line. But after offering confession and begging forgiveness in a secret meeting with the papal nuncio, they simply stepped up the violence. They recruited hardened gang members from San Diego, as well as the bored sons of affluent Tijuana families--a trigger-happy cadre known as "los narco-juniors." Mexican ex-military and police officers filled out their ranks of assassins and helped train new members. They imported not only guns but also heavy weapons from U.S. arms traffickers (they once threatened to fire rocket-propelled grenades...
...Europe and elsewhere. At home, the President declared that an election decided by 500 votes and the will of a single Supreme Court justice had delivered him a mandate for his agenda. And so he pushed through a large tax cut focusing on marginal rate reductions (which benefit the affluent) and laid out an energy policy that includes drilling in protected Alaskan wilderness. Humble is as humble does, and Bush wasn...
...Psychiatrist Stuart Twemlow, director of the Erik H. Erikson Institute for Education and Research in Stockbridge, Mass., notes that a significant subgroup of the school shooters consists of kids who come from relatively affluent families, who are academically above average, if not gifted, and who rarely have the qualities expected of violent offenders--such as a history of substance abuse or mental disorder. In Twemlow's view, this is no coincidence. "Bullying is more common in affluent schools probably than in the low-income schools," he says. It is spurred, he believes, by "the dynamics that come...
...finally was a major network with something to really be happy about. Thanks to "Survivor," the network has not only handed Matthew Perry and Lisa Kudrow's butts to them, but it's become, in the repeated words of the execs on stage at Carnegie Hall, "younger and more affluent." In other words, more successful by the same standards that, a couple years ago, the network with the oldest audience in network TV said were bogus and unfair. Back then, at the home of Dick Van Dyke, the 18-49 demographic was an ageist advertisers' shibboleth; today, the network...
...Slavery International, a London-based advocacy group. "They don't have the belief that they can build a life for their families." And so parents sell their children to traders for as little as $15, in the hope that the children will find a better life in a relatively affluent neighboring country such as Ivory Coast or oil-rich Gabon...