Word: crookedness
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If DiFranco, 30, ever changed her name to an unpronounceable symbol it probably would look like a fist, to represent her subversion of music-industry conventions. Or maybe it would take the shape of a crooked smile. Or perhaps there's no single symbol that can stand for what DiFranco...
On any Saturday morning before sunrise the crumbling YMCA on Beatrice Street near the Durban waterfront resounds with music and foot-stomping. Once this South African port city on the Indian Ocean hummed day and night with Zulu stevedores hauling ship cargo. Now in the small hours, the docks are...
His eleventh-hour pardon of financier Marc Rich was received badly from the start, but this week, as House and Senate committees dissected Clinton's decision, the pardon emerged as both universally abhorrent and colossally stupid. Rich's ex-wife, Denise, spent the last two years of Clinton's administration...
My goals were modest. I laced up my skates on the first night hoping that over the course of the next few weeks I would learn two new things. I know myself, and myself got Cs in gym; adding two moves is pushing it. But I was only there 15...
There have been some high-profile busts of crooked officials. Last month 14 people were sentenced to death in connection with a $10 billion oil-, car- and cigarette-smuggling case in the southern port city of Xiamen. The alleged ringleader Lai Changzing is currently fighting extradition in Canada. But despite...