topics.nytimes.com - 1/20/2009
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News about the U.S. Border Patrol, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
nymag.com - 1/22/2009
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Down on the Bowery last night, the New
York Times hosted an inauguration party at the New
Museum to fête Barack Obama's nascent presidency. At around six o'clock, guests began arriving in the museum's cavernous ground floor and were handed straw top ...
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Sherman: The New York Times Parties for the Obama ...
foxnews.com - 1/19/2009
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foxnews.com —
On his last full day in office, President
Bush commuted the controversial sentences of two former Border
Patrol agents convicted of shooting a Mexican drug runner in 2005. The imprisonment of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean had sparked outcry ...
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Bush Commutes Sentences for Two Former Border Patrol ...
topics.nytimes.com - 1/19/2009
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topics.nytimes.com —
Maureen Dowd, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize
for distinguished commentary, became a columnist on The New
York Times Op-Ed page in 1995 after having served as a correspondent in the paper's Washington bureau since 1986. She has covered four ...
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Maureen Dowd Columnist Page - The New York Times
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No More Pardons?
Obsidian Wings —
... "President Bush on Monday commuted the sentences of two former Border Patrol agents imprisoned for shooting a Mexican drug smuggler, but he was preparing to leave office without granting clemency to any better-known figures or government officials who could face liability over administration policies. (...) ...
How’s It Going Down At The Border?
Pirate's Cove —
... As Border Patrol agents gave chase, a third truck appeared on the Mexican side and gunmen sprayed machine-gun fire over the fence at the agents. Smugglers in the first vehicles torched one truck and abandoned the other, with $1 million worth of marijuana still in the truck bed. Then they vaulted back over the barrier into ...
How’s It Going Down At The Border?
Stop The ACLU —
... [image] Drug smugglers parked a car transport trailer against the Mexican side of the border one day in December, dropped a ramp over the security fence, and drove two pickup trucks filled with marijuana onto Arizona soil. As Border Patrol agents gave chase, a third truck appeared on the Mexican side and gunmen sprayed machine-gun fire over the fence at the agents. Smugglers in the first vehicles torched one truck and abandoned the other, with $1 million worth of marijuana still in the truck bed. Then they vaulted back over the barrier into ...
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Inauguration: Weekend wrap —
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Agenda: Seeking McCain's counsel —
First Read 1/19/2009
The New York Times writes, “Over the last three months, Mr. Obama has quietly consulted Mr. McCain about many of the new administration’s potential nominees to top national security jobs and about other issues -- in one case relaying back a ...
Inauguration: Obama's Monday —
First Read 1/20/2009
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Sign of the times —
First Read 1/20/2009
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