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...traffickers were operating there, but those traffickers have since moved to Conakry, and several Colombians have recently been found traveling on Guinean passports, says the UNODC's regional representative Antonio Mazzitelli. He recently told TIME that he fears drug-fueled gang warfare in Guinea. "What we fear is a replica of the Mexico situation," he said. (See pictures of life on the streets with the anti-narcotics police of Guinea Bissau and Liberia...
...wanted to make historical conversation between past and present,” says Andres Castro Samayoa ’10, the student curator of the exhibit. The historical photographs focus on the movement’s most iconic events. In one photograph, women surround a reinforced truck holding a replica of the Liberty Bell. The bell’s clapper has been fixed, a caption explains, so that the bell (and liberty) can only ring when women can vote. Suffragists drove the bell to every county in Pennsylvania, about 4,000 miles in total. Such events were important in solidifying...
...Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, narrowly missed signing him before he committed to Los Angeles. And their interest in Beckham may not be simply for his ability to cross a ball from the right and bend a free kick: His global celebrity appeal has been proven to sell millions of replica jerseys all over the world for his previous European clubs, and signing him clearly had as much to do with marketing as with his skills...
...Isang Yun concert hall where he performed is an exact replica of the Berlin Philharmonic’s concert hall. In fact, it has slightly better acoustics Koh noted...
...mind. Elizabeth McCracken's son never had time to find his. He died in her womb when she was nine months pregnant. There can be few grimmer topics for a book than a stillborn baby, but I'll say this for McCracken's memoir, the unwieldily titled An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination (Little, Brown; 192 pages): it's the funniest book about a dead baby that you will ever read...