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...officials, in fact, are counting on their world-conquering young sprinters - none of whom has failed a drug test, and who often speak out against the gunplay at home - to supplant self-styled "roughneck" singers as role models, and help reduce the country's horrific levels of violent crime. "These athletes can speak to the young people in our more troubled communities, especially since many of them come from those communities," says Jamaican sports writer Carole Beckford, author of Keeping Jamaica's Sport on Track. "We can't wait for them to come home as a result...
...Relying on athletes to galvanize social and economic improvement is always a risky proposition, especially in developing countries. But the Fraser family offers the kind of grassroots anti-crime publicity the Jamaican government needs more of, says Mark Shields, deputy federal police commissioner. "It has a positive effect on bringing the crime rate down. This is a great opportunity to sell Jamaica in the positive light it deserves...
...Posada was detained after sneaking into the United States from Mexico in 2005, the U.S. could have extradited him to Venezuela to face charges in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban jetliner that killed all 73 persons aboard. He denies involvement, but declassified FBI documents implicate him in the crime. (A questionable military trial in Venezuela had acquitted Posada of the bombing charge and he was in jail awaiting a civilian retrial when he escaped from that country in 1985.) This time, federal prosecutors opted to try him on charges of lying about how he got into the U.S. Even...
...family spent a couple of years there before moving to the Phoenix area. Still, things were always in flux. How often did the family move? "About 50 times," Cejudo says. "I don't know, it's countless." They often stayed in crime-ridden apartment complexes. He shared a bed with two siblings at a time. In fact, Cejudo didn't get his own bed until he was 17, when he moved into the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) training center in Colorado Springs. "It was tough, but it was life," he says. "Every other kid we knew did the same things...
Child rape is on the rise in Afghanistan's northern provinces, part of a general increase in crime that is largely overshadowed by an equally disturbing spread of insurgency. Government officials say only a handful of child rapes have been reported across Afghanistan in the past few months, but human rights organizations say the toll is much higher. Maghferat Samimi, head of the Afghan Human Rights Organization in Jowzjan, says that over the past two months she has interviewed 19 victims from the three northern provinces she serves. The youngest victim was 2 1/2 years old. Samimi carries the little...