Word: core
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...matter of time before the L.A.P.D. began to lose its grip on gangs. "Immediately after the dissolution of CRASH, there was a lull," says detective Chuck Zeglin, a gang specialist who has 18 years' experience in the L.A.P.D.'s detective-support division. "Then a lot of the more hard-core gangsters came to believe we were not going to be as proactive as before, and they went a little crazy...
Chino is as hard-core as it gets. In jail he learned how to make a tattooing needle, and a recent afternoon found him sitting in a small apartment in Highland Park inscribing a bunny design on the shoulder of Guapa, a 19-year-old female gang member. As Chino worked, he talked about the thrill he got from shooting at people when he was younger. "After a while I really wanted to see myself hit someone," he said. "That is how intense it became in my relationship with my gun. So I walked up to some guys and shot...
...through bogus transactions, inflated the reserves it keeps to pay claims by hundreds of millions of dollars; that Greenberg repeatedly directed AIG traders late in the day to buy AIG shares to prop up its price; and that AIG booked underwriting losses as investment losses to project a healthier core business...
...Your behind-the-scenes look at the Xbox 360 was excellent, but the pictures of the four pasty-faced "hard-core" gamers with their eyes glazed over reminded me why my otherwise modern home will remain video-game-console-free. My children sometimes ask when we will get a game machine (the answer remains never), but most of the time they're very busy reading, playing with friends or creating their own imaginary adventures out in the backyard. Philip F. Newman Franklin, Tennessee...
...signed, it’s another thing to make sure you’re not missing a course that really is quite central to what you want to learn,” says Nancy L. Rosenblum, chair of the government department. “That’s the core of advising...