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Those who dare "drop the flag" and resign from the gang face a brutal little ceremony called being "violated" or "jumped out." The precise ritual varies from gang to gang: sometimes each member of the gang, which may be several dozen strong, gets a free swing at the victim; other times four or five members are assigned to conduct the beating for a set amount of time. Whatever the punishment, the results are strikingly similar. "They give you a head-to-toe, which means you get your ass kicked," says Frank Perez, program director for the Chicago Commons Association gang...
...Ottomans were brutal rulers but passionate lovers of beauty. They started as nomadic warriors under Osman I in the 14th century and eventually controlled the land from Morocco across to Iran and from Poland down to the Arabian Sea. As they conquered and pillaged, they gathered the best art and artisans...
...Ionesco or Pinter or Beckett. An attitude of surrealist paranoia turned out to be the right moral optic through which to see the Communist world clearly, and Havel had keen eyesight. Constricted as a playwright, he became a dissident. Imprisoned as a dissident, he became a symbol. Communism was brutal and stupid and corrupt. Havel was Czechoslovakia with brains -- the country's better self, its idealist, its moral philosopher, the visionary of "living in truth." When the Communist state fell away in November 1989, it made some giddy, noble sense to install Havel as the first President of Czechoslovakia...
...latest offensive by Peru's Shining Path guerrillas has reached unprecedented ferocity -- and has focused on Lima, which has never experienced such a brutal wave of attacks. Starting in mid-July with a car bomb that killed more than 20 people in the capital, the campaign has flared into a full-scale blitz. Last week bombs destroyed several police stations, a private research center and the Bolivian embassy. Though President Alberto Fujimori, who canceled his trip to an Ibero-American summit in Madrid, has promised a "battle without mercy," his police and army seem helpless...
...campaign staff back in Washington, wowed by the display, was hit with the realization that Clinton and Gore are prepared to fight for every bit of schmaltzy turf this time around. They learned that Clinton was ready to take aim at the President in what promises to be a brutal fall campaign. One of the most powerful passages in Clinton's acceptance speech was this challenge: "And so I say, George Bush, if you won't use your power to help America, step aside. I will...