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Last week, Camerino tuned-up bikes for the 30th Annual Rosarito Beach-to-Ensenada Fun Ride set for April 18. The event, a notorious madhouse of semi-serious riding and beer drinking along the toll road between the two spring break towns south of the border, was more subdued this year. Normally, 6,000 arrive for the event, but this year crowds were only half that size. Other events, like a professional surfing competition, have been delayed or cancelled altogether due to the violence...
American officials say privately they're waiting to see whether reform programs like that of Reyes are serious and whether other Mexican mayors and governors will finally join the effort. Juárez's mayor, who is shadowed by six assault-rifle-toting bodyguards, has ousted half his old police force through drug tests, polygraphs and other "confidence exams." Under his pact with Calderón, Reyes now has to recruit more than 2,000 new cops, who, he says, will be among Mexico's best paid and educated. (Aside from a starting annual salary of $9,000 - twice the usual...
...don’t even think that was a serious reason,” he said of the Gen Ed committee’s justification for rejecting the proposal. “It sounded like double-talk. And you know what? Fine...
...journalistic career, most articles about non-western art centered on their sale value and not on their merit, according to Suzanne P. Blier, a professor of fine art and African and African American studies. Cotter became known for his articles covering non-western art forms in a serious and intellectual manner, she said. “He’s a man of extraordinary brilliance and compassion with an intellectual wingspan that covers the globe.” Cotter was hesitant to take full credit for the adulation that his work has received. “I don?...
...want us to be more proactive, I want us to be more consumer friendly,” he said. “We need to have a serious conversation about what kind of system we want to be. I think that will go as far as any dollar...