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...First Daughters. "It's not our job to be substitute parents," the source says. "Our function is to keep her [Jenna] safe and secure and get her home every night." A good relationship between the Bush daughters and their minders matters, because as adults over 18, the twins can ditch their detail at any time. That means agents must take their lumps, letting misdemeanors go and trying to stay inconspicuous (which still doesn't explain the Hawaiian shirts). "If they push us away," says the source...
...murder, it has evolved from the cartel's last-ditch way to protect market share into its preferred means of communication. "They rule by terror," says Errol Chavez, special agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's San Diego office. According to testimony from former associates, Ramon often rises in the morning announcing, "I feel like killing somebody today," then satisfies the urge in ways designed to build the legend, feed the fear. Trademarks include "the Colombian necktie"--cutting an informant's throat below the chin, then pulling his tongue through the wound as he bleeds to death...
...fall of 1973—my one and only chance to chant anti-American slogans in a huge mob marching down Commonwealth Avenue. Given that Congress had voted to stop all bombing in Indochina three months earlier, it felt like nostalgic playacting even at the time, a wishful last-ditch attempt to live the glamorous New Left undergraduate life of our formed-in-the-60s adolescent imaginations...
...fall of 1973—my one and only chance to chant anti-American slogans in a huge mob marching down Commonwealth Avenue. Given that Congress had voted to stop all bombing in Indochina three months earlier, it felt like nostalgic playacting even at the time, a wishful last-ditch attempt to live the glamorous New Left undergraduate life of our formed-in-the-60s adolescent imaginations...
While high-stakes tests like those in Texas have propelled some schools to ditch art and music and "focus on the basics," Fox Tech has expanded its cultural offerings--a move that has kept students such as Reyes interested in school. Test prep is confined to half-hour "blitz" classes during the five weeks leading up to the state exams. Entering freshmen get to choose which of the four schools-within-a-school to enter: Internet Design (where students can earn coveted Adobe certifications), Career Studies (auto shop, construction, cosmetology, food services and welding), the Law and Research magnet program...