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...groups known as the Colombian Self-Defense Forces (AUC). U.S. officials claim the mansions were built with the millions of dollars AUC members allegedly earn moonlighting as cocaine smugglers. But crew-cut 08, guzzling black coffee and smoking cigarettes, denies it all. "We've never been drug traffickers," he insists. And like other AUC leaders, he vows the group will never give up its wealth or submit to prosecution in the U.S. "We'll defend our freedom to the death," he says, a pistol slung from his hip. He leans back in a rawhide chair and calls his pet jaguar...
...govern. The government's weak response to the Khobar attack, says a Western analyst in Saudi Arabia, is in part the result of rivalries among the senior princes who control the army, national guard and police - "here you are dealing with different princely fiefdoms," he says. Saudi officials insist that al-Qaeda is on the run. They point to the sweeping government crackdown over the past year, in which security forces have broken up cells, arrested and killed terrorists and thwarted major attacks. Yet despite well-publicized moves to curb radicals in Saudi schools, mosques and charities, the government remains...
Baha’i stressed religious commonalities “to achieve global civilization,” Honeyman explains, Baha’i also stresses equality and tolerance among diverse groups. “They insist [on] eradicating prejudice, upholding equality of men and women...
...expanded Faculty, meanwhile, will hopefully give students the attention they deserve. Still, the recommendations to encourage better teaching fellows—which range from new awards for top-notch TFs to better TF training—will do little to change teaching quality because they do not insist on greater coursehead monitoring and interaction with course...
...when it comes to the question of what next, career counselors insist “undecided” is an acceptable, perhaps even desirable answer...