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Rather than target the crops, however, the new campaign aims to crush trafficking kingpins and their patrons in government who have formed power centers to rival those of noncorrupt officials. The problem so far has been gathering evidence against the crooked players, but now the DEA has given special-ops training to a cadre of 128 Afghan officers vetted for corruption. They will be joined by five Foreign-deployed Advisory and Support Teams (FAST) of DEA agent-advisers at a secure base with modern electronics outside Kabul. The goal is to have the units gather data from documents, computer discs...
...Among the departed pontiff's favorite destinations were the World Youth Day celebrations that he created 20 years ago to gather the globe's young Catholics every few years for prayer, teachings and music. Providence would beckon when he closed his last World Youth Day in Toronto in 2002 by announcing that the next edition would be here in Cologne. That meant that three years later and four months after the Vatican's German-born doctrinal chief Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger was elected Pope, the first WYD without John Paul would turn into a homecoming for his successor. And Benedict seemed...
Cindy Sheehan, 48, is not a natural-born revolutionary. She speaks in a high, almost childlike voice. She says like as often as any teenager, as in, "This whole thing was like so freaking spur of the moment." When her supporters gather to discuss strategy, Sheehan is not to be found in the circle of beach chairs; she is 50 yards up the road, doing yet another interview, hugging yet another stranger. But here she is, the mother of Casey, 24, who died in Iraq last year, and now the central character in the strange, swirling protest she initiated...
...July 29 deadline required candidates to gather at least 50 signatures supporting their bids for two-year terms on the City Council. All nine of the incumbents have been in office since at least 2002, meaning that, if Cambridge voters approve the same slate of candidates yet again, they would be represented by an identical Council through...
Gilliam is no stranger to conflict. His 1985 movie, Brazil, looked set to gather dust on the shelves until he took out an ad in the trade paper Variety publicly asking the studio boss, "When are you going to release my movie?" He needles the moguls, yet he needs them--and he hates that. "Hollywood," he says, "is run by small-minded people who like chopping the legs off creative people. All they want to do is say no." Yet he acknowledges his wayward streak: "I'm so perverse that I go the opposite direction of whatever's going...