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...believed to earn each year is derived from protecting Colombian cocaine trafficking. The other half is made via ransom kidnapping - the FARC currently holds more than 700 hostages in its jungle redoubts, including three Americans - which is the other reason the U.S. State Department placed the rebels on its list of international terrorist groups a decade ago (as does the European Union today...
...country's armed forces in its fight against the FARC - which killed his father in 1983. (Uribe, however, is also embroiled in a scandal over his government's alleged ties to Colombia's bloodthirsty right-wing paramilitary armies, which are also narco-fueled and on State's terrorist list...
With a membership list including organizations such as Microsoft, Facebook, and the Family Online Safety Institute, the group faces the challenge of incorporating varied perspectives into a coherent set of recommendations. But Palfrey said that all of the organizations in the task force share the common goal of protecting minors...
...What happened to Oprah, who changed the world by inventing a book club completely free of interpersonal contact? Or Hillary Clinton, who surely deserves to somehow follow in her husband’s footsteps this year? The list goes on, full of individuals who are much more worthy than a woman who thinks it’s okay to write 700-page kiddie...
...Only two figures in recent history have received a fast-track exemption: Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II, both of them superstars in the Catholic and wider popular firmament. So, when the Vatican recently added Sister Lucia dos Santos, who died in 2005 at age 97, to this list, many wondered why she had been put in that esteemed company...