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...lessons learned in Casablanca are being applied elsewhere. The project has proved so successful - over 150 volunteers have joined to mentor around 350 kids so far - it has caught the attention of Casablanca's sister city, Chicago, the old stomping ground of the world's most famous community organizer, U.S. President Barack Obama. This September, a delegation of high school students from Chicago will visit Sidi Moumen to study Mazoz's methods and implement them in deprived neighborhoods back home. "The grand vision is to make his endeavor into an international model," says Marilyn Diamond, co-chair of the Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Chicago Can Learn from Morocco's Ghettos | 7/19/2009 | See Source »

...chilling call appears to be the latest attempt to take the moral high ground by a quasi-religious drug cartel that has become one of the most dangerous threats to Mexican security forces. The caller identified himself as Servando Gomez, head of a narcotics mafia that has baptized itself La Familia Michoacana. The gangsters, who had bought ads in newspapers and given an interview to a leading Mexican magazine, claim that although they traffic drugs, they protect their local community and purport to be devout Evangelical Christians. All members are disciplined to abstain from narcotics themselves and care for their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drug-Dealing for Jesus: Mexico's Evangelical Narcos | 7/19/2009 | See Source »

While the doctrinal stance breaks no new ground, the question now, like in March, is a matter of emphasis. Why, months after the difficult issue had largely faded from view, did the Pope feel compelled to return to a case that could leave the church looking coldhearted? A senior Vatican official says the Pope was forced to back up the Brazilian bishop. "[Sobrinho] was furious," says the official. "There was the impression that the local bishop had been subjected to immediate scrutiny by the Holy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sequel to the Case of the Pregnant 9-Year Old | 7/18/2009 | See Source »

Beck, Glenn • outrage of that, "as our country burns to the ground," no questions were asked of Sotomayor at her confirmation hearings on Monday (since, despite the howling ignorance of, questioning was scheduled to - and, indeed, did - begin on Tuesday) • phone call from listener to unleashes shrieking lunacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 7/17/2009 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: After a Four-Year Calm, Bombs Hit Jakarta Hotels | 7/17/2009 | See Source »

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