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...George W. Bush immediately complained about the measure and then President Vicente Fox refused to sign it into law. In contrast, officials of the Obama Administration have been decidedly guarded in commenting on the new legislation. When asked about it in his visit to Mexico last month, drug czar Gil Kerlikowske said he would "wait and see." Many view such a change as evidence that Washington is finally reconsidering its confrontational war on drugs, four decades after Richard Nixon declared it. "There is a growing opinion that the use of force has simply failed to destroy the drug trade...
...horrified to think that this is the way the parents of some of my friends will find out.' OR GIL, 16, who was injured in a shooting at a center for gay youth in Tel Aviv; two people were killed and 11 others wounded in the Aug. 1 attack...
That's undoubtedly true. Wilders says he sleeps in a different location every night. But the image of the brave outsider, prepared to tell the truth and hang the consequences, has also proved a potent electoral tool. "[Wilders] says what others don't dare to say," says Gil Timmermans, a 39-year-old car mechanic who voted for the PVV. "I'm not a racist, but if the Muslims get their way, it could be the end of our Dutch way of life." (Read: "Gunned Down...
...Accompanying it is a new drive to display these private collections in public spaces. State-run museums are devoted primarily to antiquities and a handful of acknowledged modern masters such as M.F. Husain and Amrita Sher-Gil. The vast majority of modern Indian art is either in private homes or displayed only when it's for sale in commercial galleries. The Poddar family opened the Devi Art Foundation partly because the collection had overtaken their home, and also because, as Lekha Poddar explains, the artists had a significance beyond her own pleasure. Galleries would "constantly direct people to our home...
Despite a roster depleted by multiple injuries and the unexpected departure of freshman star Nicola Ivica, the scrappy Harvard team was able to defy the odds. The team relied on strong leadership from the upperclassmen—led by Weissbourd and junior co-captain Gil Weintraub...