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...Pride and Glory Directed by Gavin O'Connor. Written by Joe Carnahan and O'Connor, from a story by O'Connor, Gregory O'Connor and Robert Hopes. With Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Jon Voight, Noah Emmerich, Jennifer Ehle. From...
Qalibaf does, at least, look for common ground with Americans. At this years' annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, he struck up a conversation with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom on the threat of earthquakes facing their cities. The two men agreed to stay in contact. Might that dialogue prefigure an even more seismic shift in cooperation between Iran and the U.S.? "That's possible!" Qalibaf exclaims. Yet until Iran satisfies international concerns about its nuclear ambitions, it will take more than optimistic words to end the 30-year breach between Tehran and Washington...
...government shelters and services and show voters that you can slowly herd them into permanent housing. With its emphasis on tangible gains and more rigorous data, it might as well be called No Transient Left Behind. And it has proven hugely popular with local politicians, like San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, who can boast about their measurable, if small, progress...
...justice departments would continually fail to turn over suspects to federal authorities. When the city's juvenile-court system was caught flying Hondurans convicted of dealing cocaine back to their home country last May - instead of contacting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities to have them federally deported - Mayor Gavin Newsom changed the policy and told police officers that they should turn suspected criminals, even juveniles, over to authorities. "That policy was wrong," says Nathan Ballard, the mayor's director of communications. "The immigrant community must feel safe if they witness a crime; that's at the heart of this...
...Ballard blames the Federal Government for an immigration policy that he says does not follow through with its promises. "It is George Bush who has failed to secure our borders," he argues, "not Gavin Newsom." Meanwhile, the triple homicide has prompted conservative commentators including Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and Lou Dobbs to weigh in - O'Reilly called the city of San Francisco "completely out of control and now directly responsible for the murders of three men" - while CAPS has blamed the deaths on the ACLU for its "rigor" in protecting the rights of prisoners. (The organization is not involved...