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...Colleen Hufford. "All the other cities in our area were flourishing, and we were seeing ours deteriorate." Hufford, with several other women, started holding meetings for community members to discuss the situation. They formed a political action committee and ran candidates for the city commission in 2006. Today, three commissioners are members of the group, and they've brought in a female city manager, city attorney and city clerk. The women have spearheaded an aggressive revitalization project, rezoning to oust adult entertainment, landscaping the town's main thoroughfares and wooing new businesses. "We've turned the city around," says city...
But in a country where nary a statue of the dictator is left standing, and plans are in motion to turn the Valley of the Fallen, Franco's oversized and overwrought mausoleum, into a history museum, it comes as little surprise that some Spaniards take issue with his descendants' continuing...
But what of times when “enhanced” interrogation did work? Perhaps the most striking example—the case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, whose coercive treatment produced a litany of confessions—will provide a cautionary tale. Over the course of his interrogation, Mohammed boasted...
But the note left with Fernando Martí's body lied: His family had paid a ransom of more than $2 million. And after the money was handed over, they heard nothing, so they went to the offices of the attorney general and the secretary of public security, as well...
"The only worry one might have about Rick Warren," says Michael Cromartie, a prominent Washington Evangelical with the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, "is that he gets so many balls going up in the air that one might ask, 'Does he have enough hands to catch them?'" Warren has...