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Hitting a Hornet's Nest Mexico's drug plague is a product of both its authoritarian past and its new democratic present. When it ruled Mexico as an elective dictatorship, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) accommodated but regulated the drug cartels. But after the PRI lost the presidency in 2000 and its quasi-control of the cartels broke down, those groups split into more vicious gangs like the Zetas, a band of former army commandos who now head the Gulf Cartel. Cities from Nuevo Laredo to Cancún were soon reeling from turf battles. The Juárez Cartel, once Mexico...
...intelligence infrastructure that Patil leaves behind is a hornet's nest of competing interests and gaps in coordination. There were warnings earlier this fall based on telephone intercepts of an attack targeting the city, originating in Pakistan and using a sea route from Karachi, the same route used by those who smuggled explosives into the city before the 1993 Mumbai blasts. That intelligence was passed on from the foreign-intelligence bureau to the domestic-intelligence bureau and then, according to procedure, to the state police. But there was no follow-up with the local Mumbai police, who would have been...
...Here's to the girl from the great Northwest," he sings, "with tits as hard as a hornet's nest." The crowd whistles its approval...
...going to play the Green Hornet. What makes you qualified to play a superhero? Claudio Paone, BOSTON...
...conference foes Delaware State, Wofford, and Michigan State at Lavietes Pavilion.“This tournament this weekend really proved to us how good of a team we are and how far we can take it in the Ivy League,†senior Laura Mahon said.After sweeping the Hornets, 3-0, on Friday, the Crimson lost only one game to the Terriers en route to a 3-1 match victory. In the final match against the Spartans, Harvard fell short, losing the match 3-1.With its win over the Crimson, Michigan State claimed the Harvard Invitational title, having...