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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...
...military are from the Barrio Azteca gang, which is based in El Paso but whose members are recruited to work for La Línea in Juárez. That makes it all the more urgent for U.S. law enforcement to sap Barrio Azteca's strength on the U.S. side. Six Azteca bosses were recently convicted in El Paso on federal racketeering charges. Sheriff Wiles, a Democrat, believes that this attention to localized border strategies is deepening under the Obama Administration and Napolitano, who was governor of Arizona, a border state. "Our input is more of a priority now," he says. Before...
...weekend at Brown, where the offense broke out of a persistent slump in a big way, scoring 37 runs as the Crimson took three of four from the Bears. Co-captain Bailey Vertovez led the offensive resurgence, batting an incredible .692 last week with a .765 on-base percentage, six runs scored, six RBI and four doubles en route to being honored as the Ivy League Player of the Week.But she wasn’t alone. Every starter had at least one hit, with the team combining for 43 on the weekend.“We’ve just...
...Indeed the Crimson picked up right where it left off, taking the first set in five of six individual matches...
...that The Center for the Study of Collegiate Mental Health at Penn State University released on Monday. The study found that of the 28,000 students questioned who received mental health services at 66 campus counseling centers nationwide, 11 percent had seriously considered suicide only before they began college, six percent only after starting college, and eight percent both prior to and after beginning college...