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...countries are only now starting to make a priority. Meanwhile, Americans like El Paso County sheriff Richard Wiles want the U.S. to renew the assault-weapons ban that George W. Bush and the U.S. Congress allowed to expire in 2004. If it doesn't, they fear, the few Black Hawk helicopters that Washington ships to Mexico's antidrug warriors won't make up for the thousands of AK-47 rifles and even rocket-propelled grenades pouring into the hands of the gangs. "It's a shame," says Wiles, "that it's taken so many killings in Juárez to make...
Clark says the real power of the cartels is corruption, a problem the U.S. President can do little to stop. "Obama cannot offer very much," says Clark. "This is not a question of hardware. We can have hundreds of Black Hawk helicopters, but this will not stop the cartels as long as they keep bribing large amounts of police and soldiers. We have to deal with the issue of corruption by a major change in our political culture. This is our problem...
...chief, Army General William Ward, told Congress last month. In fact, the military is in no rush to head back to that lawless nation in the Horn of Africa. President Clinton's Pentagon was first bloodied there when 18 soldiers died in a 1993 firefight memorialized in Black Hawk Down. As a reminder of the volatile environment, local insurgents on Monday fired mortar rounds at a private plane ferrying U.S. Congressman Donald Payne out of Mogadishu after he had visited with the head of the country's weak new transitional government. (See pictures of the brazen pirates of Somalia...
HIGH. The undergraduate class is pretty evenly divided into males and females. However, because the female firms have less markets in the Boston-area where they can feasibly hope to hawk their wares, and because of the high threat of substitutes, the Harvard male retains high bargaining power...
...Yosano, the stimulus package marks something of a break with the past. He has a reputation as a deficit hawk. As recently as 2006, when minister of the economy, he moved to slash government expenditure 40% over five years, balance the budget by 2012 and double the consumption tax to 10% by 2015. In the light of Japan's economic meltdown, all that has changed. Like other deficit-busters, Yosano has turned to old-fashioned Keynesian demand management to kick-start the economy. "He shifted completely to say that to get over this crisis we need a big stimulus package...