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...Recently, DEA officials say, the cnp raided a group of private telecommunications switching centers that the cartel leaders had organized in Bogota so they could dial a local number and have a clerk patch their calls to numbers anywhere around the world. The CNP telecommunications crackdown has put a cramp in the dons' style, but they still use visiting henchmen to carry messages to the outside. The war on drugs isn't over by a long shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRUGS | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

...followed, accompanied by some of her friends from home and a couple of Crimson Key guides. The First Daughter looked up cheerfully at the menu, ordered a sandwich and a drink, and then sat down in one of the polished wood coves with her friends. Probably not wanting to cramp her daughter's style, the First Lady and another woman sat at a neighboring cove. It only took a few moments before the Commons was abuzz with speculation, and only a few moments before the group I was eating with--some 'representative' students lunching with a candidate for an administrative...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Just Another Harvard Hopeful | 9/21/1996 | See Source »

...squeeze in the extra session? So what if everyone's going to cramp up for the mega-long flight? When a team strives for an Al Davisian commitment to excellence, a few simple pleasures--like guaranteed playing time--have...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: F. Hockey Shoots For Top | 9/13/1995 | See Source »

...rejecting my request, the University'sjustification was that it would cramp the style ofpresent and future administrators," says YeshivaUniversity historian Ellen W. Schrecker, who wroteabout Diamond's case and others in the 1986 bookNo Ivory Tower, but was denied access torecords less than 50 years...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Historians Decry Harvard's '50 Year Rule' | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

...first set I had a lot of energy," Torres said. "By the third set my legs were starting to cramp up a so I just tried to keep the ball in play...

Author: By Anand S. Joshi, | Title: W. Tennis Whacks VCU, 6-3 | 2/21/1995 | See Source »

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