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Some 900 miles south, at the tip of the Baja peninsula, the luxury resort area known as Los Cabos, is also suffering the drug backwash. But the issue there is not drug wars, but the kidnapping of the high-end tourist trade, which it has sought the last 10 years...
...fair, as you can see from the photo, the Big Green supporters kept the damage within reason. By only digging up the red part of the H, the perpetrators allowed Harvard's maintenance crew to easily patch up the offensive spot. And admittedly, we tip our cap to the Dartmouth fans for showing that they actually care deeply about Ivy League sports. Or at least about dissing Harvard. Either way, this intrepid FlyBy reporter is headed up to Hanover for the weekend series to see Big Green fans at their belligerent finest, when the two schools fight...
...Defeating the pirates, however, took more than sea power. Combined with the greater military deterrent, many potential pirates' outlook in the region improved. Analysts believe that some of Malacca's pirates came from the Indonesian territory of Aceh on the far western tip of the island of Sumatra. That region had been torn apart by a three-decade battle between a local Islamic separatist group and the Indonesian military, isolating Aceh and annihilating economic opportunities. Desperate Acehnese took to piracy as the only way to earn a living, while arms-smuggling operations spawned by the conflict added an organized, criminal...
...side-arm breaking balls on the inside part of the plate. The rookie yielded three earned runs and only five hits through six innings, but could not outduel Gormley.“[Gormley] was very good,” Walsh said. “He was tough and I tip my hat to him.”The hulking righty worked 6 2/3 of the game’s seven innings, allowing a run with six strikeouts and no walks.The Crimson put a scare into its hosts during the final inning, getting the tying run to second base. Rouches singled...
...Capital Force case is one of the largest mortgage frauds to date in Florida, but it's just the tip of an iceberg of scams that have wrecked broad swaths of the state's reeling housing and commercial real estate market. The situation is worst along the I-4 Corridor between the Tampa and Orlando areas, where almost 30,000 homes are in foreclosure. (Lee County, in fact, has one of the nation's highest foreclosure rates, at about 12%.) In recent years, fraud - involving either property purchases like Capital Force's, or schemes that falsely promise to help desperate...