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...week ago, the decomposed body of Fernando Martí, son of the Mexican businessman Alejandro Martí, who last year sold his chain of fitness clubs for $562 million, was found inside the trunk of a parked car in Mexico City. Near the body was a note, which read, "For not paying, yours truly La Familia." The boy had been asphyxiated more than a month earlier, having been kidnapped some 53 days previously when the armored vehicle in which he was being driven was stopped at what appeared to be a checkpoint of the AFI, Mexico's Federal Agency...
Much bigger deals are in the works, and the competition will be fierce. Among the leading contenders: Lockheed Martin, Accenture and Computer Sciences Corp. By Dec. 31, CBP is required by law to fingerprint all visitors with visas at the 50 busiest land crossings along the Canadian and Mexican borders. The remaining 100 or so land-crossing points must be covered by the end of 2005. This year the State Department's 211 consular offices must be able to fingerprint all visa applicants and embed all U.S. visas with a bar code containing the traveler's digitized print, photo...
Kids sometimes get in trouble for breaking a window or an arm while playing a sport, but they rarely cause controversy for their choice of sport itself. Not so with Franco-Mexican boy Michel Lagravère Peniche, 10. Twice over the past weekend, officials in the south of France stopped Lagravère from taking part in his favorite pastime. Such a prohibition might be odd were the kid a soccer or rugby champ. But Lagravère's precocious gift is for bullfighting...
Julio Frenk, a global health expert who served as health minister under former Mexican President Vicente Fox, will become dean of the Harvard School of Public Health as of January 1, according to a statement released by the University today...
...improve the school's finances, particularly in the area of student aid.Frenk gave few specifics in his first interview about his plans as dean, saying that first he will spend the coming months working closely with Bloom and faculty and students to understand their needs and expectations. As a Mexican national, Frenk will be one of two deans at Harvard who hails from a country other than the United States.Mohsen Mostafavi, who has served as dean of the Graduate School of Design since last January, was born in Iran and spent a significant portion of his career in Britain. Additionally...