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...Drinking and driving was legal in Montana? Yes. And not only legal but rather popular. In a state that measures more than 700 miles from its southeast to northwest corners and where most of those miles consist of empty highway enlivened only by blowing tumbleweeds and the occasional bloated mule-deer corpse, a cold can of beer was viewed by some as a necessary, invigorating diversion...
...even as the national property-crime rate fell 25%. "People are stealing anything that's not nailed down," says county commonwealth's attorney Dennis Lee. Testimony in a recent trial in Tazewell revealed that one man was so desperate for OxyContin, he traded his mule for four tablets...
...highlights Catalina Sandino Moreno--in her first professional role--stars as the willful Maria, a young Colombian who, faced with few options in life, decides to become a drug mule. Director Joshua Marston's commentary on the DVD provides a historical backdrop, talking extensively about the drug trade in the U.S. and Colombia...
Standing inside Mule Creek, Schwarzenegger declared the state's entire prison system "broken." He lashed out at the wall of silence that he said prevented guards from speaking out about abuses committed by their co-workers. "We won't stop until we tear down the whole wall and see it on the ground in a pile of rubble," he said...
...spending cuts. And he has not been the cost slasher he promised to be. For example, after vowing to take back $300 million in pay and benefits promised to the prison guards, Schwarzenegger was bargained down to $108 million in savings for the state. (And despite his pledge at Mule Creek, he has done nothing to get guards to testify about abuses in the prisons.) In the coming year, the Governor's team promises to carry out some of the 1,200 proposals to streamline state bureaucracy that were set forth in a statewide review ordered by Schwarzenegger. They included...