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...after an intense government campaign forced the Sicilian Mafia to scale back its narcotics business, the coastal region of Calabria offered an ideal alternative as a drug-trading route. Over the past decade, officials say, the Calabrian clan has evolved into Europe's leading cocaine trafficker, with a network extending from Europe to South and North America and Australia. Its members are also deeply into related criminal enterprises like arms dealing, toxic-waste dumping, money laundering and graft from public-works contracts. Last week, Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu declared that 'Ndrangheta is "the most entrenched, most powerful, and most aggressive...
...Sunni insurgency. But Allawi has limited appeal among religious Shi'ites, and therefore the Bush Administration has hopes for two other possible leaders. One is Adil Abdul Mahdi, said to be among the more pragmatic religious Shi'ite leaders. And then there is Chalabi, who has built a formidable network of Shi'ite associates that includes the radical firebrand cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Of course, Chalabi has serious downsides as well-aside from the greasy residue on his resume. The Sunnis don't like him. He has been an advocate of the most extreme and injudicious de-Baathification proposals. When...
...forum, televised on the local cable network, gave the candidates several minutes to introduce themselves and outline their vision for the next two years...
...scope of what they can do with the JetBlue name, and any future promotions they try to pull off will have to be cleared with Kidd. However, it seems that other groups are not subject to the same scrutiny. A pair of students on the payroll of Cartoon Network, for instance, hold promotional events around Harvard Square and are planning a TV discussion night with Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse. Adam C. Estes ’07, meanwhile, has been busy working for Vitamin Water as a student representative. Last year, he brought a thousand bottles...
...news so much as it shows us the humor in the news that we can’t so easily discover when we watch real journalists. There is also an inherent difference between Stewart’s subjectivity and the ostensible objectivity of network news that creates an extra layer of laughs...