Word: recentering
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Shortly before noon on a recent Monday, T.J. Cooper sat in his red pickup, showing off his digital camera. He clicked through pictures he had taken a few weeks earlier of a man driving a truck full of radiators stolen from a vacant home here in Indian Village, one of Detroit's last middle-class neighborhoods. No one, Cooper notes wryly, likes having his picture taken. "They try to hide their face. Or break your camera. Or," he says, driving up a tree-lined street, "break you." Minutes later, Cooper passes the same man, in the same truck, apparently scoping...
Although I had heard reports about drug-violence problems in Mexico—mostly from friends who received travel warnings while planning spring-break trips to Cancun—a recent trip to Mexico proved that the drug problem producing this violence is unavoidable even in the “safest” parts of the country. After only a week, my family stumbled upon a murder scene and learned of the death of a close friend at the hands of La Familia. A recent law to legalize possession of small amounts of drugs in Mexico is a step...
...Obama administration should be lauded for not pressuring Calderón to veto the recent law, like the Bush administration did in 2006 when a similar bill was being considered. The Obama administration seems to be moving toward a more liberal policy regarding marijuana, but it is moving at a much slower pace than Mexico. Attorney General Eric Holder recently directed federal prosecutors to shift their focus away from cases involving medical marijuana infractions and to focus on higher-level drug traffickers...
Despite a recent study’s findings that college enrollment hit an all-time high in October 2008, the College has not seen dramatic fluctuations in its enrollment number in the past years...
...Warren E. Buffet. The plot describes the imaginary efforts of Buffet and a small coterie of other real-life elites to “take on the corporate goliaths” and “redirect the country toward long overdue changes,” Nader wrote in a recent piece on OpEdNews.com...