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...Sept. 11, 2001, many of our citizens may feel they can’t be safe enough, that civil liberties should be suspended in the face of mere street demonstrations. But there is a proven alternative to throwing out the Constitution. U.S. officials can take a lesson from the Mexican government and police. During quite militant demonstrations against the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Cancun last September, unarmed Mexican police held their positions without using pepper spray or clubbing and arresting demonstrators. They proved that the state can de-escalate repressive police tactics and still preserve trade forums...
...single, or holds up the sign that says, I'M STACY'S MOM." He sighs. "I hope it doesn't haunt us." Schlesinger couldn't be happier. With the momentum from Stacy's Mom, the band has persuaded its label to do a video for its second single, Mexican Wine, in Brazil. There will be several yachts in the video and a helicopter too. "Actually, I think one of the yachts has a helipad on it," says Schlesinger. "Considering we really didn't expect anybody to pay any attention to a record by us this year...
...will shelter you - and a ready supply of cash (Saddam was found with $750,000 in $100 bills) to buy their silence. Using the highest-technology then available and an army tens of thousands strong, the U.S. military under Gen. "Black Jack" Pershing was never able to capture the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa in the arroyos and badlands of Sonora after he laid waste Columbus, New Mexico in 1916. (Prosaically, Villa was killed years later not by the U.S. Army but by a man he had cuckolded.) Precisely two years ago, Osama bin Laden slipped away from the mountain ridges...
Taco Bell was also the subject of another proposal, in response to concerns over the Mexican fast-food restaurant’s Florida tomato pickers, who have objected to the company’s labor practices. The committee abstained on the measure, which would have required Yum! Brands to prepare a report on the company’s social, economic and environmental practices...
Brener switches from a French to a Mexican accent and rereads his monologue, adding hilarious improvisations that delight the deliberators...