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...economy, according to the annual World Competitiveness Report, pushing Japan from the top spot to No. 3. Singapore ranked second. The improved U.S. showing was attributed to the nation's recovering economy, but the study also warns that emerging countries such as Latin America's Chile, Mexico, Argentina and Colombia could pose future threats...
...Jack, played by Harrison Ford, will ultimately testify before a Senate committee, it all starts with a President and his men deciding to insert a small guerrilla force into Colombia to hit one of the cocaine cartels. This is done in deep secrecy, and among those left out of the loop is Jack. After escaping an ambush, he learns that the men in suits are selling out the troops in the field and even trying to do a deal with one of the drug lords...
...cloud has always gathered around Colombia's soccer mania. Since Colombia's elimination two weeks ago, the team had received several anonymous threats. In 1989 a referee was killed, apparently by a group of gamblers linked to drug traffickers. This year there had been rumors, none substantiated, that some of the country's drug lords had wagered heavily against the national team. Before the U.S. game, defensive back Jaime Gabriel Gomez withdrew from play after his family received death threats...
...Beyond Colombia, the death cast a further pall on the World Cup, which had been receiving a modest but heartening welcome in the U.S. A moment of silence preceded the Germany-Belgium game in Chicago. Said Sepp Blatter, head of soccer's governing body: "If something happens by accident, you can say it was the will of God. But when people deliberately shoot and kill somebody because he made a mistake in the game, something is wrong...
...COLOMBIA: The Deadly World...