Search Details

Word: cortese (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

The No. 4 Harvard women’s squash team (6-0, 3-0 Ivy) opened the second half of its season in style, scoring an impressive 7-2 upset win over No. 3 Trinity (8-1) last night at the Barnaby Courts. The victory marked the first win for...

Author: By Barrett P. Kenny, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Gains Momentum With Big Win | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

With odds of winning money as low as one in three, the lottery has continued to thrive since its inception during the Spanish War of Independence. Cortes de Cadiz, the country's legislative body, introduced the game in 1812 in order to increase state income and held the very first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World's Biggest Lottery | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

The gang hit was ordered in Los Angeles, but the blood was spilled thousands of miles away in Honduras. On October 7, in the Central Penitentiary of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, the prison homeboys of the "MS" gang cranked up the volume of their dormitory's TV set. It was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gangs: the Mara Salvatrucha | 7/27/2008 | See Source »

Revenge motivated the leaders of the U.S.-based MS, whose initials stand for "Salvatrucha Gang," to order Cortes killed. They blamed him for his failure, while leading the gang inside the penitentiary, to defend his members against an attack by rivals from the 18th Street gang. It had been the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gangs: the Mara Salvatrucha | 7/27/2008 | See Source »

Cortes had been transferred out of the Central Penitentiary soon after the killings, but after he turned to religion, prison authorities sent him back, hoping he could tame his own gang. And that cost him his life.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gangs: the Mara Salvatrucha | 7/27/2008 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Next