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Experts say Guatemala is no longer a mere drug corridor, but rather an essential and highly lucrative pit stop on the road north. One Guatemalan columnist likened the country's new role to a "privateering port." Julio Godoy, former vice-minister of security in Guatemala's interior department, called Guatemala "one big warehouse" for drugs. More and more Mexicans with suspected drug links are turning up in Guatemala. "They're clearly here essentially to establish themselves and to take on rivals," says ambassador McFarland...
...selects entrants for its five bowl games using an algorithm that weighs two expert polls and six intricate computer rankings. Its mastermind, former Southeastern Conference commissioner Roy Kramer, had a simple mission when he unveiled the system in 1998: pinpoint a formula that would pit the nation's two top-ranked teams against each other in a winner-take-all contest. Since 1902, postseason bowl matchups had been based largely on historic rivalries and conference affiliations. Schools reaped financial windfalls, but the process failed to crown a definitive champion...
...YORK CITY Lacoste Musician Michael Stipe teams up with Lacoste to design a limited-edition polo shirt featuring a photo print of a mosh pit (above; $155) for its Holiday Collection series, available only at the Fifth Avenue store...
...Masri has the same name as an al-Qaeda operative being hunted at the time by CIA officials, and they took custody of el-Masri in Macedonia. Operatives from the agency beat and drugged el-Masri before whisking him to a secret prison in Afghanistan known as the "Salt Pit." Eventually el-Masri's captors realized they had the wrong man and let him go, dumping him on a mountain road in Albania...
...interested in blurring the lines between where the music starts and where the dance starts.” To highlight the interplay between them, Koch broke with tradition and put the musicians on stage with the dancers instead of out of view in the pit. She intentionally tailored costumes and movements so that at the beginning of her piece it is difficult to tell who is a dancer and who is a musician. “What I think that the art needs to move forward is exactly a collaboration of that type,” says Lauren...