Word: dares
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dare you keep me waiting? Are you that stupid...
...feels like heaven," says Michael Broadnax, 26, of South Central Los Angeles. A former member of the Bloods, Broadnax did not dare venture into neighborhoods dominated by Crips until factions of the rival gangs forged their remarkable truce in the heat of last month's riots. "I can go to places I've never been or even ridden through before," he says. "It's like freedom." Those words are echoed over and over in South Central these days, as residents marvel at the pact that has brought relative peace to an area more accustomed to gunfire and bloodshed than...
Some undergraduates choose to play it safe and travel the well-paved road of writing scholarly and critical theses. But some students prefer the road less traveled and dare to venture into the wacky and the unusual...
...pressure. Of being the number one team in the country for virtually the entire season. Of trying to win a second national championship (and only the school's third NCAA crown). Of playing an opponent that is younger and (dare anyone think it) hungrier...
...that was in keeping with one part of the defense strategy -- to make the jurors empathize with the dangers police officers face. The defense contended that the officers did not dare simply to seize King and apply the cuffs for fear that the suspect might grab one of their guns. "I tried to put the jurors in the shoes of the police officers," boasts Michael Stone, Powell's attorney. "We got the jurors to look at the case not from the eye of the camera but from the eyes of the officers." That's one more reason why the prosecution...