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Located on India's southwest coast, Mangalore is hot, hilly and carpeted in coconut palms. When I was growing up, young men of all religions were united by shared values of hard work, enterprise and a desire to get out of Mangalore as quickly as possible. My brother left when he was 18. I left when I was 16. Many of those who got out never returned. There was no need to go back because the place never seemed to change...
...taken into custody earlier this week. Frank Limon, Chicago's chief of organized crime, described the man, who has yet to be charged, as a potentially crucial link to larger dealers and perhaps the root of the outbreak. While overseeing operations on Chicago's West Side and just southwest of the city, the man allegedly used children, including a teenage Russian girl, as runners because juvenile laws are more lax on those busted. "He's like a street boss. We've moved up a level with this arrest," said Limon...
Karl Rove was sitting on a Southwest Airlines flight from Baltimore to Manchester, N.H., waiting for other passengers to board on Monday afternoon when he got a message on his BlackBerry from his lawyer, Robert Luskin. Rove phoned back and got the news he had been hoping to receive since at least October 2004, when he first testified before a federal grand jury investigating the leak of the identity of former CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson...
...then is the phenomenal rise of S?gol?ne Royal, the elegant and iconoclastic ex-family minister who now presides over the Poitou-Charentes region, on the Atlantic coast southwest of Paris, sowing more bitterness than joy at the top of the party...
...city of 3.2 million was rocked by a 6.2-magnitude earthquake that struck offshore, just 24 km to the southwest. Feeling the tremor, thousands of families fled into the streets and rushed for high ground, fearing another tsunami like the one that killed some 170,000 Indonesians in December 2004. "Everybody, young and old, ran up the hill for safety," says Ismambandiah, a middle-aged woman caught in the quake. The fatal waves never came, but the temblor wreaked havoc on Yogyakarta and surrounding communities, killing at least 3,000 and leaving tens of thousands more injured and homeless...