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...small-fry - like the smuggler's driver, the document forger or the guy who prepared the box lunches for the crews of the go-fast boats. Once in U.S. custody, many high-level smugglers do cop pleas and then turn on one another, allowing prosecutors to weaken their organizations, says Josh Levine, former chief of the international narcotics trafficking unit of the U.S. Attorney's office for the southern district of New York. Prosecutors also note that little guys often help build cases against the capos. But Perez estimates that half of all extradited Colombians have no business bobbing through...
...capitals that France's plans to strengthen Europe's own defense can help the NATO alliance rather than undermine it. "France needs to put an end to questions in the minds of certain allies about whether its desire to construct a European defense identity is in part designed to weaken NATO," Tertrais says. "Total reintegration into NATO would not only alleviate these suspicions, but also bring France's evolution even with other European Union nation members in NATO. Since it was created in 1992, one important aspect of European evolution has been the increasing convergence of the E.U. and NATO...
Thanks to blanket media coverage and the long campaign, we know an awful lot about the personal lives of President Obama and his family. Could that weaken the power of an office that relies, to some degree, on mystique...
...Palestinian territories since Hamas won the elections of January 2006, but after Israel's 22-day pummeling of Gaza, their quarrel has become intensely personal. Hamas officials have accused Abbas' former national security chief, Mohamed Dahlan, of colluding with Israelis in advance of the invasion in a bid to weaken Hamas' resistance. (View images of Fatah-Hamas conflict...
...morally abhorrent" and also "economically self-defeating." That was because he believed that good journalism required that a publication's primary duty be to its readers, not to its advertisers. In an advertising-only revenue model, the incentive is perverse. It is also self-defeating, because eventually you will weaken your bond with your readers if you do not feel directly dependent on them for your revenue. When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, Dr. Johnson said, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Journalism's fortnight is upon us, and I suspect that 2009 will...