"There are several problems with this notion of a failed state," "One of them is that somehow in Mexico,all of a sudden, the government has become heavily corrupted by cartels as if there wasn't corruption in the past.
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Photographer Jay Maisel, who shot the iconic "Kind of Blue" album cover for jazz great Miles Davis, said he wished the school hadn't borrowed so heavily but doesn't see an easy solution including hitting up alums for cash.
"There was no barbed wire and it wasn't heavily patrolled, but adults needed passes to go out, " says Hirsch, American director of a group called the Council on the Jewish Experience in Shanghai.