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...Some analysts say Calderon can win the war if he continues a sustained assault. "He can smash the big organizations in the same way the Colombians took down the Medellin Cartel," said Mexican drug expert Jorge Chabat. "The cartels cannot defeat the government militarily. Their strength is corruption...
...brief but spectacular career as China's first roving citizen reporter on the Internet ended abruptly last December after he was punched in the throat by an angry policeman in the northeastern city of Shenyang. Zhou's offense: investigating a bizarre pyramid scheme involving ants and aphrodisiacs. The assault took place during a short stint in jail, after which plainclothes cops escorted Zhou to the airport and put him on a plane home, with dire warnings about what would happen to him if he returned. The small, bespectacled 26-year-old took heed. "I will keep silent now because...
...joined a New Zealand expedition to the Himalayas. Helped by ever-improving equipment and Nepalese Sherpa guides, mountaineers were advancing further and further up the world's tallest peak. In 1953 a team led by British Colonel John Hunt planned another assault on the mountain the Nepalese call Sagarmatha, "head of the sky." Hillary signed on. The 15-man expedition also included Hillary's friend George Lowe, the renowned Sherpa climber Tenzing Norgay, eight other British climbers, a cameraman, a doctor and James (now Jan) Morris, a reporter from the London Times...
...Bourdillon and Charles Evans made the first assault on May 26, and got within 100 m of their goal. Three days later Hillary and Tenzing set out in fine weather and, after a five-hour climb, reached the summit, 8,848 m above sea level. "My initial feelings were of relief," Hillary later wrote. "Relief that there were no more steps to cut - no more ridges to traverse and no more humps to tantalize us with hopes of success...
...shape under former mayor and presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani. Even the most minor of crimes - jaywalking, urinating in an alley, turnstile jumping - were pursued with vigor under the notion that cutting out the everyday "quality-of-life crimes" would help reduce the majors, such as murder, rape, robbery and assault...