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...bullets and blood are played out on Tijuana's dusty streets, President Obama discusses cross-border gun smuggling issues with Mexico's President Felipe Calderon and U.S. Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano unveils new security measures along the San Diego-Tijuana border, it's just business as usual for many, like Eric Camerino...
...young as 9 years old. While some are kidnapped and forced to join rebel groups, the majority are lured with empty promises of salaries, says Martha Mesa, a social worker at the center. Others join for darker reasons: for those who have lost loved ones in the cross fire between guerrillas and paramilitary groups, vengeance can be a powerful motivator. Humberto, a resident at the center, says that when he was 12 years old, paramilitary soldiers murdered his mother and brother. (His name and those of other former guerrillas have been changed to protect their identity.) "I felt...
...freshman in 1966, Cotter enrolled in Lowell’s graduate seminar. The first art course Cotter took was a result of him seeking to fulfill a science requirement. He enrolled in a “primitive art” class in the Anthropology Department that was cross-registered with the Art History Department. It was this course that introduced him to the Peabody Museum, where he spent much of his time as an undergraduate. After college, Cotter ended up in New York City where he first worked on The New York Arts Journal, a quarterly that covered all areas...
...investigation into her AIPAC ties, and denounced the claims as "irresponsible, laughable and scurrilous." The investigation purportedly fizzled at the time due to "lack of evidence." But the CQ report suggests that then Attorney General Alberto Gonzales interceded to halt the probe to preserve Harman's value as a cross-aisle defender of the Bush Administration's warrantless wiretapping program. Harman has called on the Obama Administration to release any transcripts or investigative material related to the incident, which she says will exonerate...
...concern is not about me," she said. "My concern is whether there have been widespread abuses [that] may impact the members of Congress, but, more importantly, may impact a broad cross section of the American public who don't have the bully pulpit that...