Word: assaultive
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...with gang members and identify personally with the three-step demobilization process: cease-fire, disarmament and social reintegration. "That experience made us sensitive to their problems," he said. "Their life, the lack of opportunities they have, that is what it was like for us, only instead of fighting with assault rifles, they throw rocks...
...coalition with other mainstream parties, Jaroslaw invited two fringe political groupings - the nationalist Self-Defense Party, or Samoobrona, and the ultra-Catholic League of Polish Families - to join the government in exchange for Cabinet posts. Samoobrona leader Andrzej Lepper, a pig farmer who has been convicted of slander and assault, became Deputy Prime Minister and Agriculture Minister, while League of Polish Families leader Roman Giertych, the former head of an ultraright nationalist youth group with a reputation for anti-Semitism and homophobia, was anointed Education Minister...
...sign of good will, two were killed and negotiations for the remaining 19 have stalled. In exchange for the Korean hostages, the Taliban is demanding the release of 8 insurgent captives - a concession the Afghan government, with the support of the U.S., has refused to consider. While the assault on the Koreans is clearly related to the insurgency, it appears that the German engineers were initially abducted by a criminal gang who may have passed them into Taliban hands...
...course, gangsta rap isn't a record-company invention. Indeed, hip-hop's two most celebrated icons, Shakur and Notorious B.I.G., embraced the sort of lyrical content that today has opened hip-hop to criticism. And the music companies, under assault from file-sharing and other alternative distribution channels, are hardly in a position to do R&D. "When I first signed to Tommy Boy, [the A&R person] would take us to different shows and to art museums," says Q-Tip. "There was real mentorship. Today that's largely absent, and we see the results in the music...
RACHEL STOHL, a senior analyst at the Center for Defense Information, responding to a new government report revealing that the Pentagon lost track of about 190,000 pistols and AK-47 assault rifles given to Iraqi security forces...