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When Colombian police began cracking down on the narcotics trade, traffickers coined a defiant slogan: "Better a tomb in Colombia than a cell in the United States." Now that drug kingpins can avoid extradition under a new plea- bargaining agreement, a cell in Colombia has become a very attractive compromise. Since Medellin drug-cartel leaders Jorge, Fabio and Juan David Ochoa surrendered to Colombian authorities in recent months, they have been housed in a custom-tailored facility. Angry U.S. drug-enforcement officials complain that the Ochoa brothers are enjoying posh accommodations equipped with fancy furniture, stereos and cable television...
...Jake, 35. "I tell her instead that it's not what I'm for, it's what I'm against. I'm against the war." Jake recalls a man who entered the store wearing camouflage and presented his brother and him with a calendar bearing a photo of the tomb of the unknown soldier. All the dates but Jan. 15 had been crossed...
...when an unmarried relative was often the backbone of the community, with the leisure to do what those with children did not have time for. Like Henry Higgins, Souter may be happiest spending "his evenings in the silence of his room; ((in)) an atmosphere as restful as an undiscovered tomb...
...forays into the city was during the summer of '89, which he spent getting to know some of the people who live in Cairo's City of the Dead. He was interested in the social networks that exist among the people living in poverty in the city's old tombs. The work he did eventually became a photo essay and an article(for Harvard's Development Forum) in which he was able to show, in this neglected part of Cairo, the existence of a healthy fabric of human community. All were photos taken in the City of the Dead; there...
...SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ORDER NOW!), while others warned that resistance is already building to the hardships reform will entail, especially inflation and unemployment (FOOD IS NOT A LUXURY, PROTECT OUR JOBS!). Mikhail Gorbachev, who must reconcile that contradiction in the months ahead, left the reviewing stand atop Lenin's tomb, as jeers rose from the crowd below...