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Counting the in-laws, the family has the potential to stretch its brand of celebrity politicians from coast to coast. Schwarzenegger, the clan's lone Republican, took a pass on next year's California Governor's race but says he'll probably run for something someday. Andrew Cuomo, who is married to R.F.K.'s daughter Kerry, has his own pedigree as the son of former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, but in trying to avenge his dad's gubernatorial loss to George Pataki, he's relying almost as much on his Camelot connection. "Why do we love Andrew Cuomo...
...deny the country a vote. Counting Iceland in their camp nonetheless, Japan and its supporters "corrected" the record on subsequent votes. And for the 14th year in a row, Japan failed to win approval for the killing of 50 minke whales by four traditional whaling ports along its Pacific coast. Just before the conference opened, Masayuki Komatsu, a top Fisheries Agency official and one of the Japanese delegation's alternate IWC commissioners, termed the small, speedy minke "the cockroach of the oceans." Komatsu also stirred controversy by voicing what environmental campaigners had long asserted - that Japan uses international...
DETROIT—If there’s one thing I learned during my first year wandering the streets of Cambridge, it’s that people on the East Coast believe that anything west of the Alleghenies is a cultural black hole—a haven for cows, sheep and Jerry Springer guests...
...after nine months living in Harvard Yard, I, too, began to repeat the East Coast Mantra. I called home to talk with family and friends—and spent half of the conversation fixated on their glaring accents. I revised my reply to the inevitable “Where are you from?” inquiry. “Michigan,” I said. “But I want to live in New York.” I hardly lived up to the Puritan pedigree, but at least I was trying...
...four components--young, Hispanic, male, confused--became famous in the 1980s because of the DEA's Operation Pipeline. Pipeline was essentially a series of training seminars the DEA built around the Illinois strategy of targeting couriers. Local police around the nation--particularly in the Southwest and along the East Coast--were taught to profile these couriers. In 1999, Donnie Marshall, then No. 2 at the DEA, proudly told Congress that Operation Pipeline had led to seizures of 116,188 kg of cocaine, 748 kg of crack and 872,777 kg of marijuana, and that half a billion dollars in drug...