Word: bandits
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...been the bureau chief for an American newsmagazine in Moscow in the second half of the '90s and that we correspondents in those days had a saying that we thought apt for the times: what was happening in Moscow then - devaluation of its currency, default on its debt, rapacious bandit-dominated "up against the wall" capitalism - was "great for journalism, but bad for Russia...
...honored by the shrine to Jesus Malverde in Culiacan, so often packed with locals, is no ordinary Mexican saint - Malverde was a Sinaloan bandit who has been adopted as a kind of a patron saint by the northern province's drug traffickers. Sinaloa is the cradle of Mexico's narco-trafficking industry, producing the majority of the nation's drug kingpins in recent decades. Their number includes such storied figures as Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, who ran the Guadalajara Cartel and ordered the savage killing of a DEA agent; Amado Carrillo Fuentes, alias "The Lord of the Skies," who died...
...Phillips Brooks House Association and Project HEALTH, an organization that works to raise public-health awareness. Chiang was one of these 23 HCMC runners.While many Harvard students team up with HCMC for the marathon, others chose to pursue a less official route—running “bandit,” or running the marathon without officially registering. Because the Boston Athletic Association prohibits people from registering unless they are running for charity or meet a specific qualifying time (which depends on both the runner’s age and gender), for many, bandit is the only...
...Wire differs from most TV drama, he says, because it's based in Greek tragedy about fated individuals, not Shakespearean tragedy about heroic individuals--but his show doesn't play like a tract or a thesis. It's full of memorable characters, like Omar (Michael Kenneth Williams), the principled bandit who robs from drug dealers; Detective Jimmy McNulty (Dominic West), the boozy, dogged cop trying to work cases the city won't pay for; and Bubbles (Andre Royo), the recovering junkie fighting his addiction like Sisyphus pushing a boulder of dope up a mountain...
...parking meters were from Somerville, while the rest were from the East Cambridge area. While the Cambridge Traffic, Parking, and Transportation department had noticed that meters had begun disappearing last year from Cambridge and Somerville, authorities had been unable to nab the so-called “meter bandit.” “There’s never been anything that big,” said Pasquarello. “A few parking meters have been stolen, but never anything of this scale.” While such a theft may be a first in Cambridge, cases...