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...spike in drug-violence in Guatemala coincides with the crackdown on organized crime in Mexico, which that country's president, Felipe Calderon, declared two years ago upon taking office. Since then gnarly murders and vicious turf wars have broken out in both Mexico and Guatemala, as traffickers seek to reposition their operations. Mexican cartels are also looking to control routes along the highly porous Guatemala-Mexico border and elsewhere in Central America. "Now there's an all-out struggle to see who gets to dominate this link in the drug trafficking chain," says Bagley. The contenders include Mexico...
...SPIKE LEE to debut musical at Sundance...
...work, including your embarrassing acting credits. Season 4’s “big twist” was the addition of a female geek/male beauty team. Oh, the possibilities! Things only improved when I realized that creepy “hunk” Sam played linebacker villain Spike Hammersmith in 1994’s “Little Giants.” Thereafter, whenever Sam started to grate on my nerves, I just envisioned Spike carrying a refrigerator on his back, threatening Becky “Icebox” O’ Shea, and talking about himself...
...time they spent behind bars but stressed that forgiveness has helped them overcome their traumatic experiences.“The same system that took everything away from me gave it all back to me,” Bright said. A RISE IN INCARCERATIONSociology professor Bruce Western said that the spike in incarceration rates has occurred over the last 20 years. “We’re living now in an era of mass incarceration, and this era has produced a generation of enduringly disadvantaged young African American men,” he said. “The growth...
...have served their nation. The agency has an annual health-care budget of close to $100 billion, nearly double what it was a decade ago. The recent rising tide of post-traumatic stress disorder among vets is now costing the VA $4 billion a year, which includes a hiring spike in mental-health professionals, from 13,000 two years ago to 17,000 today. And the VA's caseload is rising with the burdens of the two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq: Close to one million military personnel who have served in those countries have shed their uniforms, and about...