Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Randy Haselton, who has multiple arrests for fighting, says Edgers won't back down if anyone "talks sh__." But as for cruising around looking to beat people up, he says, "that's a lot of crap...
...Association showed conclusively last week that the majority of people attempting to day-trade professionally lose "everything they invest." Does this sound similar to casino gambling? It is. Both involve bets on random moves that come with heavy tariffs and that ensure it's a rare gambler who can beat the house over time...
...Raphael Dinelli's Algimouss capsized in a storm in the Southern Ocean, he managed to get on top of the inverted hull and cling there. The story of his rescue by his English competitor Pete Goss--who bravely turned back into the teeth of a force-10 gale and beat to windward until he located Dinelli--is one of those anecdotes of miracle that can be enacted only in an intense theater of life-or-death...
...probably saw the story recently about the trainload of commuters who beat a man to death for talking too loudly on his cell phone. No? Maybe I just imagined it. Still, it could happen--it's getting that tense out there. These cell-phone people are so out of control that I worry about their safety--or would, if I weren't fantasizing about swatting them savagely about the head, shoulders and utility pouch with their obnoxious and nap-destroying phones. There's a guy serving a year in jail in England for refusing to shut up, shut up, SHUT...
When Bradley criticized Clinton, he also ignored a fact known to everyone in the room: with Newt Gingrich and now Tom Delay running the House, no President could launch a war on poverty. It was all Clinton could do to beat back the 1995-96 G.O.P. tide, and the Rainbow members are grateful for it--but Bradley never acknowledged that, and the omission undermined his credibility. Problem is, it's hard for Bradley to draw stark contrasts with Gore, who was cheered wildly by the Rainbow on Saturday. Bradley said he wouldn't try to reverse welfare reform but would...