Word: crookedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This class includes kids on the cusp. About half say they plan to go to college. One already knows he wants to join the Army, become an MP, then be a cop. "Better be a crooked cop," a classmate advises him. "That's where the money is." One is great...
"He said my path was straight and his was crooked and he was gonna try and knock me off mine," recalls Becca.
Among them, he says, are Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing, and Timothy McVeigh. One can only imagine this bombing trio's conversations. Kaczynski says McVeigh (who has recently been transferred to another prison) lent him one of the most interesting books he's read lately...
With its probes of crooked politicians, bad cops and layers of racism, All Souls easily breaks its regional and ethnic boundaries. It should be harder to automatically think "black" when the euphemism "inner city" pops up again. Perhaps that is why MacDonald was heckled by Southies at a recent book...
They're not quite racists. I'm sure they have a smidgen of diversity within their sales-force ranks. It's hard to describe them as chauvinists since I'm certain that they have a smattering of female executives. And I'm willing to bet that they even have a...