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Solo smugglers like yachtsmen and hippie wanderers have crisscrossed the South Pacific for decades. But organized crime didn't cast much of a shadow over the region until 2000, when police in Suva seized 350 kg of heroin bound for Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Since then, the law-enforcement radar has blipped increasingly often over Fiji. In 2002, 74 kg of methamphetamine was found on a ship in Singapore headed for Fiji and Australia; the same year Hawaiian police busted a syndicate that smuggled cocaine and ice to the U.S. mainland, Tonga, Fiji, Australia and New Zealand; and last...
...shadow of violence and death has hung over the fiercely proud Acehnese for centuries. The province never fully succumbed to rule by the Dutch colonialists who pacified the rest of the Indonesian archipelago, and since 1976, G.A.M. has been fighting doggedly for an independent state. The conflict has already cost the lives of 10,000-20,000 Acehnese...
...that George Tenet leaves behind next month is a shadow of its imaginary self, a butt of jokes rather than the envy of the world. It is an agency that has become self-protective and bureaucratic; it is too reliant on gadgets rather than spies to steal secrets. Sometimes the CIA has simply been too blind to see what is hiding in plain sight. Tenet restored the agency's morale, but he leaves behind a string of spectacular intelligence failures...
...these elections as a launchpad for returning the once-mighty Tories to government. There's no doubt that the party's good local election results owe much to his efforts. After winning the leadership last November, he re-energized party workers, quelled squabbling in the shadow cabinet, and established a reputation for brisk competence that has made him a credible contender for Prime Minister - especially since 61% of voters in a recent MORI survey disapproved of Blair's job performance. Howard's appeal was evident early this month on a campaign stop in Eastbourne, on England's south coast, when...
...realization was only beginning to set in for Cromwell, who until that point had turned a blind eye to both his rising prominence within the team and the dominant shadow which he cast over the waters of the EISL...