Word: shannon
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Washington: Stanley W. Cloud, Laurence I. Barrett, Ann Blackman, Gisela Bolte, Ricardo Chavira, Jerome Cramer, Michael Duffy, Dan Goodgame, Ted Gup, S.C. Gwynne, Julie Johnson, J.F.O. McAllister, Jay Peterzell, Michael Riley, Elaine Shannon, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver Boston: Robert Ajemian, Sam Allis, Melissa Ludtke Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: William McWhirter Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cathy Booth Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Scott Brown, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, Martha Smilgis, James Willwerth, Sally B. Donnelly San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman...
Washington: Stanley W. Cloud, Laurence I. Barrett, Ann Blackman, Gisela Bolte, Ricardo Chavira, Jerome Cramer, Michael Duffy, Dan Goodgame, Ted Gup, S.C. Gwynne, Julie Johnson, J.F.O. McAllister, Jay Peterzell, Michael Riley, Elaine Shannon, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver Boston: Robert Ajemian, Sam Allis, Melissa Ludtke Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: William McWhirter Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cathy Booth Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Scott Brown, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, Martha Smilgis, James Willwerth, Sally B. Donnelly San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman...
...reporter who covers crime knows that when the flash-bang goes off at the front door, the SWAT team is storming the back door," says correspondent Elaine Shannon. And so, when Pablo Escobar Gaviria, the ferocious leader of the Medellin drug cartel, surrendered to authorities in Colombia last week, Shannon knew that the real story lay elsewhere. "Escobar is a terrific sound- and-light show," she says. "But people of such towering stupidity always flame out." In her eyes, the group to watch is the Cali cartel. And, as deftly laid out by her in one of this week...
...look at organized-crime groups the way I might analyze companies in which I am considering investing," says Shannon, who has kept tabs on the Cali group since 1984. "Medellin had more wholesale and retail outlets, but the organizations were sloppy and high-handed. Cali, on the other hand, is always finding new ways to handle high volume with efficiency and security. They're like Detroit and the Japanese automakers used...
...Shannon is the author of Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the | War America Can't Win. The book was turned into last year's Emmy-winning mini- series Drug Wars: The Camarena Story. She began working on our cover piece last fall by interviewing U.S. drug-trafficking experts. In March she went to Colombia to describe the world of the cartel chiefs...