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...Good Lord, my doctor told me that years ago. This is news...
...clunky syntax and odd phrasing provided strong clues that the usually eloquent pol (currently both Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and Secretary of State for Justice) wasn't quite himself. This didn't stop a number of recipients from ringing Straw's office to ask if his predicament had been solved. Their calls were met with bafflement. Straw has not recently visited Lagos. Moreover, says his special adviser via text message, when he last did so "to the best of my knowledge he never lost his wallet!" (See a story about the Alicia Keys MySpace phishing controversy...
...began to descend rapidly and it started to sink in. This is the last flight. I'm going to die today. This is it. I recited my favorite Bible verse, the Lord's Prayer, and asked God to take care of my wife, children, family and friends...
...contrast to all the bloodletting and legal gymnastics that surrounded extradition in the 1980s and '90s, sending Colombian criminal suspects north has of late become an almost everyday ritual. In December, drug lord Diego Montoya - a.k.a. Don Diego, or the Boss of Bosses in Colombia's underworld - was extradited to the U.S., where he had been on the FBI's most-wanted list along with Osama bin Laden. Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has dispatched nearly 800 thugs to the U.S. - about two per week - since he was first elected in 2002. That is 10 times more than his predecessor, Andres...
...cell in the United States," Escobar unleashed a wave of car bombings and assassinations that forced the Colombian government to water down extradition laws. Cowed officials even built Escobar a five-star jailhouse, with a Jacuzzi, discotheque and fake waterfall, for a brief stint behind bars before the drug lord was gunned down by police...