Editor’s note: This might have been the most popular column Mike Royko wrote, though he often later said he didn’t like it much. He started it in 1963 and tinkered with it, off and on, for the next three years, finally using it in the Chicago Daily News in 1966. The column ran annually at Christmas time in the Daily News and then the Sun-Times for about 25 years. It still resonates.
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One of Colombia’s legendary drug lords and a key operator of the Medellin cartel has been deported back to the South American country, after serving 25 years of a 30-year prison sentence in the United States. Shortly after landing on Monday in Bogota, Fabio Ochoa was a free man. The former cartel boss was met by immigration officials in bullet proof vests on landing. Colombian officers took Ochoa's fingerprints and ran his name through a database. Shortly after, the national immigration agency confirmed... Читать дальше...
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