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From there, the Crimson co-captain proved why he earned the top ranking in the nation. Opening the second period with a reverse, O’Connor took a 5-2 lead that he would not relinquish. As Pami made a number of charges through the second and third frames, O’Connor held strong to capture the title. The senior slowly removed his headgear with wide eyes after the referee raised his hand...
...member of the family who used to own the Franco-Swiss, was murdered right outside the winery's walls way back in 1882 - and supposedly haunts the place. One dark and wet winter night soon after the Mansfields purchased the winery, they were dining with friends when Richard took the guys over to the winery for a little late night tour. As they wandered around with flashlights, one of the more tipsy fellows yelled out, "If you're here, Jules Millet, knock three times!" Only their laughter broke the silence. But then the next night, six loud explosions...
Since democracy took hold in Mexico in 2000, say many Latin America analysts, the country hasn't looked much beyond its northern border. "There's a sense that Mexico has decided its future depends on the U.S., and it's not paying much attention to what other countries are doing," says Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, director of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and a former adviser to the Mexican government. But Mexico has paid a price for focusing so much on its relationship with Washington. It sends an inordinate 80% of its exports...
NAFTA is another reason. The "giant sucking sound" Ross Perot warned about has worked in reverse: since NAFTA took effect in 1994, it has drawn Mexico ever more tightly to the U.S. and Canada. That's been especially true under Calderón's more conservative National Action Party (PAN), which has ruled Mexico since 2000 and whose voter base resides in the country's more U.S.-friendly north. And then, perhaps most important, Mexico for the past decade has been waging an increasingly horrific war against its drug cartels, whose narcoinsurgency has afforded the government little time and energy...
...Brazil took a lead role in the Honduras crisis...