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Mexico's drug war had produced relentless bad news for years - until this week. The headlines south of the border have been awash in a ghastly wave of bloodshed - mass executions, videotaped beheadings, rocket-grenade assaults on police stations and newspaper offices - that has all but spun out of the government's control and saddled Mexico with one of the hemisphere's worst crises of civil violence. There have been 1,300 drug-related murders recorded in Mexico already this year, compared to some 2,000 for all of last year. And so, there was cautious optimism over reports that...
...world is awash today in political, religious, almost psychological conflicts, which require us to divide up and demonize people who aren’t us,” he said...
...Iraq is a step in the right direction. But Iran has nowhere near the levels of control over and responsibility for the chaos and carnage that Washington is ascribing to it, and we can't count on it being the silver bullet. The unfortunate truth is Iraq is awash in weapons and only a unified, independent, popularly backed Iraqi government can change that...
...surround gun shows, where in many states there is no waiting period. At this critical juncture, it is essential that Democrats in the House and the Senate not back down from pursuing tougher gun control legislation. The killings at Virginia Tech have shown us the costs of a society awash in guns; now is not the time to allow pressure groups and political considerations to derail such important, commonsense measures...
...geeks have inherited the earth," says Smith, "but if they had, Grindhouse would have grossed $100 million. It plays to a marginalized culture." A marginalized culture with a big stick. When Disney tried to market the sweetly sad Bridge to Terabithia as the next Narnia, the Web was awash with fanboy invective, not for the film but for the trailer's misleading emphasis on fantasy. In the end Terabithia did respectably with family audiences, earning more than $100 million worldwide, but it didn't pull in the nearly $300 million that Narnia...