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...very friendly thing. It was expected eventually [everyone] would be busted. Everyone knew each other. They had grown up together. These were busts that began with "How is your mom doing?" The penalties weren't very steep, either. One guy was let out of jail every day to go home and feed his cows...
...large executive lounge. Apart from Bourbon Street's blackened redfish and popcorn shrimp, you can dine on sashimi, Vietnamese egg rolls and, in keeping with the hospital's increasing patronage from the Middle East, kebabs at a Lebanese stand called Beirut, which serves up to 400 of them a day. (See pictures of Bangkok, the capital of gridlock...
This is a day in the life in Medellín. One recent morning, students waved white flags calling for peace - even as they mourned a 13-year-old classmate killed by a stray bullet just days before. In the afternoon, police captured 21 alleged criminal gang members who had slipped back into the paramilitary drug world after pledging to give it up. By night, around 10:30 p.m., police were hauling a dead body into their "necro-mobile" - a truck that collects bodies - and remarking how light a night it had been so far. It was only the second...
...citizens, dubbed the Notables, recently negotiated a cease-fire between the feuding gangs. "We approached them with one request: stop the killings," says Jorge Gaviria, a member of the Notables and the former director of Medellín's peace-and-reconciliation program. Since Feb. 1, the first day of the truce, Gaviria says, murders have dropped significantly and conditions are ripe to negotiate a more permanent peace. But the green light the government in Bogotá had granted the Notables to hold talks wasn't renewed after Feb. 12, stoking fears that bullets will fly again. (From TIME...
...here is another odd, but inspiring, thing: Samiya would not have her new skills if it were not for the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. On that day, a Jewish American real estate magnate named Ronald Bruder was desperately searching for his daughter, who worked in downtown New York City, near ground zero. His daughter turned up safe, but the shock and panic stirred him. "I started reading and thinking about the Middle East," Bruder told me recently. "And what I came to was this: if people were gainfully employed, maybe they wouldn't be so angry...