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...three friends have been in the same city for only 12 hours. Thomas moved here from Germany. Luis quit his job in Colombia. Amar arrived this morning from Tokyo via Vancouver. Now they are sitting at Elroys, a restaurant on a deserted block in San Francisco, talking about the business they are starting together. "We're so happy right now," Thomas says. "This is an adventure. We're jumping into the cold water, and it feels great." It's surprising that he doesn't go for a Gold Rush analogy, as people here tend to do once per conversation. Surprising...
These 49ers are from the Class of '98 at Harvard Business School, where they met. Luis took a six-figure job with the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. in his native Colombia. Amar, who grew up in New Delhi, went to work for a Dallas software company. Austrian-born Thomas worked in Stuttgart, Germany, as assistant to the CEO of Porsche. Every six months he was loaned a new sports...
Your article "A Carpet Of Cocaine" says that most of the cocaine that reaches the U.S. is from Colombia partly because of "the success of U.S. aerial spraying in Bolivia and Peru" [WORLD, Aug. 9]. It is important to clarify that coca eradication in Bolivia is done by manual means and not through the spraying of chemical defoliants. The use of herbicides or any other chemical agent is strictly prohibited under Bolivian law in order to preserve the ecological balance. No spraying of any sort is done in Bolivia in connection with coca eradication. MARCELO PEREZ-MONASTERIOS Ambassador, Embassy...
...know those airline meal carts ? the ones that bump your knees and block the way to the toilet. Well, the ones on American Airlines flights from Colombia have been carrying a lot more than just bland airline food. Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrested more than 50 employees of the airline and its subcontractors in Miami Wednesday, after exposing a scheme in which drugs were concealed in the carts loaded in Colombia and then removed on arrival in the U.S. An undercover sting operation had also enticed the suspects into smuggling weapons and explosives aboard planes. Agents began investigating the smuggling...
ARRAIGNED. LAURIE HIETT, 36, wife of the U.S. Army colonel leading the antidrug war in Colombia; on charges of conspiring to ship cocaine to the U.S.; in New York City. She denies the allegations...