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While Puerto Rico battles drug dealers and their violence, the consequences are even more disastrous for the tiny island states that neighbor it. Their economies rely mostly on tourism and perhaps a single cash crop like bananas or sugar. That makes them vulnerable to domination by the drug lords. If large countries like Colombia can turn into "narcodemocracies," how are much smaller and more fragile nations to avoid the same fate when they have little firepower or financial incentive to fight back? "We are really worried," says Robert Gelbard, head of the State Department's Bureau for International Narcotics...
...Dole may be a little old, but he can take former president Ronald Reagan as a thriving mentor. He has the support of two-thirds of the Republican governors in the United States. He is the best of the Republican crop as it has been presented to us. We just wish that we had been given a little better and that the candidates had put on some make-up to cover their warts...
...pathetic actions of these embezzlers are an insult to this fine institution. Certainly, it looks bad when Ivy League kids who are supposed to be the cream of the crop are caught stealing. But it looks even worse when their crimes are so amateurish...
...region. To underscore this point, Vargas Llosa inserts flashes of Sendero violence throughout the early portion of his narrative: the stoning to death of two young French tourists and a prominent ecologist visiting from Lima; the slaughter of a herd of vicunas being raised as a cash crop for the local economy; the invasion of a village in which residents are persuaded to massacre one another...
...select 16"--the cream of the prep school crop--include Phillips Exeter Academy, Phillips Andover Academy and Choate Rosemary Hall, all schools that continue to send a high percentage of their graduates to the "big three" Ivies. This, despite the fact that admission rates among all prep school students have declined in recent years...