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...victim to gang violence, the gangs' reputation for brutality is well deserved. Many New Zealanders remember dreadful crimes that prompted tougher laws. In 1988, a 19-year-old woman was kidnapped and taken to a Mongrel Mob convention in Auckland, where she was raped by at least 15 men, beaten, urinated on, covered in petrol and photographed over a nine-hour period before she escaped. In 1996, police witness Christopher Crean, who had testified against Black Power members who'd taken part in a violent brawl, was murdered in front of his wife and children when a shotgun was fired...
While Fryer admits that his proposals have been “beaten up a little bit” by critics, he has seen more and more elementary and middle school principals willing to give his ideas a chance...
...statement, following the revelation that seven of the victims had been boys ranging in age from 12 to 15, held the militants responsible, saying, "Witness statements taken early this morning clearly put the blame on the suspected terrorists saying that if the children attempted to go outside they were beaten and pushed away from the door." "We are truly sorry for the innocent lives lost in this attack," said Army Maj. Chris Belcher, a Coalition spokesman. "We had surveillance on the compound all day and saw no indications there were children inside the building...
...sign of abating. It seems increasingly likely that the controversy will mark a significant milestone in the evolution of the country's civil society. Police said they had rescued more than 500 people from forced labor in brick kilns, where they were worked 18 hours a day and beaten if they tried to escape. Some 30 arrests have been made and more are expected following a massive police rescue operation involving 35,000 officers checking 7,500 work places...
...circulating cell counts survived an average of twice as long as those who had higher levels. More cells in the blood could be a sign that the drugs are not working and that it's time for a different chemotherapy regimen. Such blood-based diagnostics may not yet have beaten cancer, but, says an enthusiastic Mills, they "are the holy grail." Those are decidedly optimistic words in a specialty too often short on them...