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...panorama of malefactors includes: a 13 year-old boy who is initiated into the mob by being shot point blank while wearing a bullet-proof vest, something like a Mafia bar mitzvah ("Now you are a man"); a middle-management toughie who, like Tony Soprano, is in the waste removal business (the Camorra holds a monopoly in this industry), dumping drums of toxic sludge; and two punks who quote the Pacino Scarface and think they've hit the jackpot when they stumble on a weapons stash ("Let's rack up corpses," one says, "no use feeling depressed"). Above these scarred...
...alongside, draped in green webbing heavy with ammunition pouches, grenades and walkie-talkies. They carry their rifles at chest height, baseball caps shading their grim faces as they scan the surrounding area for potential trouble. Jaafar was killed two days earlier - wounded by a sniper and executed with a bullet in the head, according to residents -during heavy clashes between Hizballah and the Druze followers of Walid Jumblatt, an arch-critic of the Shi'ite party, in the hills of the Aley district above Beirut. Because of the tensions, there must be no shooting in the air during the funeral...
Indeed, Interpol believes the global appeals may be the child exploitation unit's newest weapon. "It's a silver bullet," says Michael Moran, Interpol's head of operations for both cases. "We've shown the efficacy of this. The public likes being asked. They produce the goods. And it sends a message that if you abuse children, you will be caught." That doesn't mean civilian policing will dislodge more conventional methods. "There is no question this can help, and probably often would," says David Kennedy, Director of Center for Crime Prevention and Control at John Jay College of Criminal...
...hate campaign. After the signing of the E.U. agreement, the nationalist tabloid Kurir carried a photo of Tadic and a colleague toasting the deal under the headline "Serbian Pigs Rejoice! They Gave Away Kosovo!" Tadic reportedly received a letter recently accusing him of "treason" and promising him "a bullet in the forehead." Authorities are taking the threat seriously: Zoran Djindjic, the reformist Serbian Prime Minister who helped topple Milosevic, was assassinated in March 2003. Even by Serbian standards, the political atmosphere "has become poisoned," says Dragoljub Zarkovic, editor-in-chief of the news weekly Vreme...
...plans to begin implementing them in the next fifteen years. Cischke emphasized that none of the various solutions that are being researched at the moment will be a panacea.“There’s a lot we’re working on, but there is no silver bullet,” Cischke said. “We’re going to have to rely on a whole bunch of solutions.”Cischke also spoke about the impact of consumer markets on Fords’ manufacturing decisions. In particular, she contrasted the American consumer market with...