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Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela have avoided war, but now two other Andean nations are gearing up for battle. This time the foe is the United Nations, and the cause is the right to chew coca, the raw material of cocaine. It may not sound as important as the diplomatic row that shook the region earlier this month. But the dispute is momentous for millions of people in Bolivia and Peru - where the coca leaf is sacred to indigenous culture and a tonic of modern life - and for anti-drug officials in the U.S. and other countries who are desperate...
...knows CCA intimately. Until last summer, the longtime Republican was in charge of "quality assurance" records for CCA prisons across the U.S. He says that in 2005, after CCA found itself embarrassed on several occasions by the public release of internal records to government agencies, Puryear mandated that detailed, raw reports on prison shortcomings carry a blanket assertion of "attorney-client privilege," thus forbidding their release without his written consent. From then on, Jones says, the audits delivered to agencies were filled with increasingly vague performance measures. "If the wrong party found out that a facility's operations scored...
...ignored the second half” of the story. That second half, Burns said, was that researching civil nuclear technologies is a necessary step in developing nuclear weapons. “The difficulty in developing nuclear weapons is not the weaponing; it is developing the raw materials,” he said. But despite the danger, Burns said it is still necessary that America and its allies refuse to talk to Iran unless it suspends nuclear production for the duration of the negotiations. “We cannot hold talks while Iran continues to develop nuclear weapons...
...He’s got some raw tools, but he’s got a lot of drive and passion,” Tillman said. “I think the longer we have him here, the better he’s going to be. He came to Harvard as an athlete that played lacrosse and now we’re turning him into an athlete that is a great lacrosse player. He’s not afraid to make a play...
Many believe Paterson's collegial approach to governance could soothe a legislature rubbed raw by Spitzer's abrasiveness. His affability will be an asset in combative Albany. What's unclear is whether it will be enough to effectively lead a state whose government may be one the nation's most dysfunctional...