Word: beating
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...seven months. But they obliquely refer to the way his victims are beaten to death by blunt instruments, which can include brutal blows by the killer's hands and feet. Says Mike Cox, spokesman for the department of public safety in Texas: "It takes a lot of rage to beat someone to death if the killer knows the person. But to have that kind of rage against a stranger is spooky...
...favorite among the 16 competing nations. Yet defending champion Norway, as well as China or Brazil, could also win the trophy. The U.S. women won the first Cup in China in 1991. Four years later, Norway won the crown in Sweden. But at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the U.S. beat China 2-1 to win the gold--although few viewers got to see that achievement, since NBC gave the game short shrift. ("NBC thinks the world is made up of divers," fumed Hank Steinbrecher, U.S. Soccer's secretary-general.) That won't happen again. All the Women's World...
...hands when he took a call from a resident complaining that the next-door neighbor was growing corn in the front yard. New immigrants, Davila says, are "suspicious of cops. In Mexico most of a policeman's salary is from bribes. They think we're going to beat them up or take their money." It doesn't help that while Hispanics make up more than 28% of the 1.2 million residents of Phoenix, they account for only 12% of the city's police...
...week: on Thursday the multimillionaire hip-hop mogul is scheduled to appear in a New York State criminal courtroom to face felony charges for assault. In April he and two bodyguards invaded the office of Interscope Records president of black music Steve Stoute and allegedly administered a street-style beat-down. Combs blamed Stoute for allowing MTV to air a music video with a scene of Puffy nailed to a cross--a scene Combs had ordered...
...Harvard College. And The Crimson taught me that just like any other school, you have to learn how it works piece by piece. I started in the English department by declaring my concentration, and in Harvard race relations and ethnicity by becoming the Crimson beat reporter--both areas I'm looking forward to exploring more in the fall...