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Both avenging last season’s second-place finish and marking its sixth-consecutive victory, the Crimson shot a two-day total of 603 to take home the top prize in the Roar-EE Invitational, hosted by Columbia University at Spook Rock Golf Course in Suffern...
...some 2,500 drug-related murders last year. He is making another visit on Tuesday. But rather than throwing more troops onto the city's streets, as he did last year, Calderón is pushing social and financial reform - including the kind of judicial modernization that tends to spook drug lords more than soldiers do. Last week, for example, the legislature in Chihuahua state (which includes Juárez) passed an asset-seizure law, similar to U.S. RICO statutes, that if enforced could seriously drain the cartels of the cash and property that lets them buy their guns...
...most successful arena. This is where the CIA believes it has won two wars, in 1989 and 2001. So this has to challenge a lot of assumptions." As a result, there will be two immediate and contradictory reactions to the attack. The more overt will be a flash of spook machismo. A published comment from a CIA official included this threat: "Last week's attack will be avenged. Some very bad people will eventually have a very...
...most successful arena. This is where the CIA believes it has won two wars, in 1989 and 2001. So this has to challenge a lot of assumptions." As a result, there will be two immediate and contradictory reactions to the attack. The more overt will be a flash of spook machismo. A published comment from a CIA official included this threat: "Last week's attack will be avenged. Some very bad people will eventually have a very bad day." (Read "The CIA Takes a Big Hit in the Afghan...
...even with the $45 billion coming to it, the FDIC will look broke, and probably stay that way until sometime in late 2012. And that raises the question as to how much a boost in confidence the prepayment plan will be to the banking system. "Does it really spook people that the FDIC has a negative number?" says Miller. "To the public, I think, it is less spooking than borrowing from the Treasury. That's why they are doing it. It's a p.r. thing." (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...