Word: boxer
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...public or in view of the public wearing pants below the waist which expose the skin or undergarments." The offending style, of course, was the hip-hop-influenced saggy-pants fashion, popular primarily among young black men who let their pants drop and expose a few inches of their boxer shorts. But the city fathers of Riviera Beach could have a hard time convincing the local judiciary that the ordinance is constitutionally valid...
...persuade their parents and the town's elders, all is not lost for the saggers of Riviera Beach. At a court hearing last week, 17-year-old Julius Hart stood before a Palm Beach County circuit court judge. Police had spotted Hart showing about four inches of boxer shorts, then discovered that he was on probation for a possession-of-marijuana charge. Hart spent a night in jail. Judge Paul Moyle opined that the saggy-pants law was unconstitutional and released Hart. And the county public defender's office may push to repeal the law. The saggers also have...
...Originally requested by Senators Ted Kennedy and Barbara Boxer after the great bagged-spinach E. coli fiasco of 2006, the report arrives on the heels of a salmonella outbreak earlier this year, linked to tomatoes and peppers, which sickened at least 1,440 people and was America's largest food-borne-illness outbreak in a decade. Meanwhile, toxic additives in milk products in China have killed four infants, sickened 54,000 and led to recalls of Chinese dairy products worldwide...
...Bush EPA just walk away is shocking.' BARBARA BOXER, chair of the Senate's Environment Committee, saying the Environmental Protection Agency bowed to pressure from the Pentagon in its decision not to remove a toxic rocket-fuel ingredient found in the drinking water of nearly 400 sites in 35 states...
...thin lip-line of resignation; no catastrophe laid on Turk can surprise or disappoint him. Maybe De Niro has kept his physical instrument in shape all these years by husbanding his gestures. But Pacino has been a perpetual motion machine. In this movie he still is: dancing like a boxer, chewing gum, his feet banging out a nervous paradiddle. Eventually, gravity takes its revenge. In remorseless closeup, and beneath his strangely youthful hairdo, he reveals the forehead furrows, a murder of crowlines, bags like backpacks under his eyes. He and De Niro are men whose faces I've watched...