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...Amato, Tyson found the father he never had. "He broke me down and rebuilt me," Tyson says of his coach, who adopted him, raised him with the d'Amato family in the Catskills and gave the boy focus and purpose as a boxer. Tyson was an apt pupil: he obsessively studied old films of boxing legends, learned the spiritual side of the warrior mentality and, he says, "restrained myself from having sex for about five years." He tore through the amateur ranks, knocking out one opponent in a record eight seconds, and was heavyweight champ before...
Well, not exactly. Rosarito has had its share of death, particularly late last year when a war broke out between rival factions of the Arrelano drug cartel and when federal, state and city officials cracked down. More than 30 people, mainly cartel members, were killed in Rosarito. Since then Torres has installed a new Tourist Police Force, some 38 uniformed men, to reassure tourists that things are being patrolled. He's also working with the area's three key tourist centers, Tijuana, Rosarito Beach and Ensenada, to re-brand the region as "The Baja Coast," in a $1.6 million marketing...
...plague is a product of both its authoritarian past and its new democratic present. When it ruled Mexico as an elective dictatorship, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) accommodated but regulated the drug cartels. But after the PRI lost the presidency in 2000 and its quasi-control of the cartels broke down, those groups split into more vicious gangs like the Zetas, a band of former army commandos who now head the Gulf Cartel. Cities from Nuevo Laredo to Cancún were soon reeling from turf battles. The Juárez Cartel, once Mexico's most powerful, is better known today...
...Cuba.” In remarks made at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago, Obama indicated his willingness to engage with the Cuban government in an effort to ameliorate U.S.-Cuba relations, which have remained chilly for half a century. And, prior to the summit, Obama broke with traditional policy by lifting restrictions placed on Cuban-Americans’ ability to travel to Cuba and send money to friends and relatives on the island...
...wins in, the better,” co-captain Hayley Bock said. “We’re going to try to beat them no matter what field we’re on.”Harvard is coming off an impressive weekend at Brown, where the offense broke out of a persistent slump in a big way, scoring 37 runs as the Crimson took three of four from the Bears. Co-captain Bailey Vertovez led the offensive resurgence, batting an incredible .692 last week with a .765 on-base percentage, six runs scored, six RBI and four doubles...