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...when a good Mexican cop is working with the DEA. A few years ago, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo sent an earnest young police reformer, Jose (Pepe) Patino, to help clean up Tijuana's corrupt police force. "Of all the [Mexican police] I've ever worked with, he's the only one I ever felt was honest," says a DEA agent who has investigated the cartel for years. For his safety, Patino lived in San Diego. But in April 2000, two Mexican federal police comandantes--who had been polygraphed, vetted and trained by the U.S. to serve in a "clean...
...voters who feared that Dubya might be too smart-alecky and cocksure to be trusted in the Oval Office. On the campaign trail, the Texas governor tended to exude the opposite of humility. Bush was playing against type, countering the perception of his callowness with a pledge to be earnest and humble. He was saying he could be a mature and responsible leader. He was also promising to be moderate. After all, ideologues, of the right or the left, are not humble. They are so convinced of their rightness that they view their opponents as inferiors and their followers...
...more earnest is Waldman's beliefnet.com, which opened in January 2000 and hosts more than 1.7 million visitors monthly. There, I can flip through religions as though leafing through a newspaper. I can pray for sick children or spouses of other visitors or (knock on wood) request they pray for me. Questions? I can "Ask the Rabbi," "Ask the Imam" or "Ask Father Ted." Formerly an editor at US News and World Report, Waldman noticed that religion covers always sold well, yet there were no mass-market religion magazines. Half of an interfaith marriage, he was also inspired by personal...
...been in public life your whole life - don't suddenly go silent now that you're in private life. And let the Al Gore who emerges be the Al Gore of the Democratic convention - passionately earnest - not the robotic Al Gore of the debates. Don't be ashamed of your knowledge of government and how things work - it makes for a good contrast with the present occupant. And, by the way, according to this week's TIME/CNN poll, Bush's approval rating has gone down 14 points in the last two months. But it's too early to look...
...that even the coup plotters?allegedly several senators and former police officers?were scrambling to catch up with events. "There was no time for them to organize support in the armed forces," said one ex-military intelligence chief. The nature of the crowd was different, too. Instead of the earnest-but-cheerful street warriors of the first two People Power demonstrations, these were Manila's poor, who had charged out of the slums as much to rage against their own misery as to reinstall Estrada. They quickly became uncontrollable...