Word: miguel
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Council Vice President Brandon C. Gregoire '95 expelled two members--Miguel G. Fabregas '96 and Jonathan P. Barnes '96--for excessiveabsences
Rodriguez Orejuela is a soft-spoken 56-year-old who complains of migraines and an expanding waistline. Since the bloody demise of Pablo Escobar of the competing Medellin cartel last year, Gilberto, in partnership with his brother Miguel and other members of the Cali cartel, has achieved a virtual monopoly on the world cocaine trade. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration estimates that along with smaller groups, Rodriguez exports 700 tons of the drug annually. Thus he is a major contributor to America's drug plague and its attendant tragedies: the crack babies, the drive-by deaths, the myriad other lives...
...town does; up and down the Rockies you find municipalities struggling with the problem. Telluride's San Miguel County requires developers to set aside 15% of their sites for affordable housing. In Aspen, where resistance to more new "monster homes" has great zeal, there is a proposal to raise the amount of new development that must go for modest housing from 40% to 60%. In Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where a 14,000-sq.-ft., three-bedroom log cabin is going up, building inspector Dennis Johnson says a campground for low-wage earners might not be a bad idea...
...already 8:30 a.m. on election day, and the one-room, dirt-floor polling station in San Miguel de Ocosingo, deep in the rebel territory of Chiapas state, should have opened half an hour ago. But ballot boxes had not arrived. The door stayed closed, and the line of expectant voters outside grew longer. Was this another case of ballot hijacking by the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, the P.R.I.? Finally, Caralampio Amparo Perez, an election official, emerged waving one of his replacement boxes over his head. He had improvised with cookie cartons; each had a hole cut into the side...
Jack Ryan assumes the post of his good friend Admiral James Greer (James Earl Jones) without fully realizing that his underlings and co-workers are surreptitiously plotting against him. He wants to be up front in his dealings with the Columbian drug lord Ernesto Escobedo (Miguel Sandoval). He wants to stomp out their operations, but not at the cost of human, especially American, life. Suffice it to say that everyone is double-crossed during the film. Those who were at one time enemies become friends, and friends become foe. When all is said and done, Ryan is the single remaining...