Word: drifters
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Everyone to whom I spoke, young and old, wealthy and working class, perceive President Bush to be an ignorant farm boy, sort of a drifter, and they can’t understand how he got elected. I’ve had many of the same feelings myself, except that it’s perfectly clear to me how the Republican machine got him selected by the Supreme Court. When I explain to Europeans that he was a heavy drinker until the age of 40, that before he was president he had never visited Europe, that he rode into office...
ARRESTED. BRET MICHAEL EDMUNDS, 26, drifter wanted for questioning in the abduction of Elizabeth Smart, 14, from her Salt Lake City, Utah, home; in Martinsburg, W. Va. Edmunds checked in to a hospital there under a phony name after an apparent drug overdose. Officials insist he is not a suspect in the Smart case...
There is nothing new about terrorist groups recruiting petty criminals like Padilla, a former Chicago gang member, or Reid, a drifter from south London. "If your goal is finding people able and willing to support or plan illegal acts," says a senior French law-enforcement official, "criminals are an obvious choice." The French should know; many of those involved in the mid-1990s wave of bombings in France orchestrated by the Armed Islamic Group were street criminals who had converted to radical Islam. Islamic terrorist leaders, says a French justice official, "go to the crook, the drug dealer, the troublemaker...
...While Miyake may not be your classic Olympian, she's a poster girl for Japan's Generation Lost. A talented drifter, Miyake, 28, excelled in gymnastics as a child in Nara but quit. She later tried skiing but gave it up. And she took a break from her university studies in Chinese literature and went backpacking in New Zealand, where she happened to take a snowboarding course. She turned out to be pretty good at it. "I've always failed whenever I was hung up about winning," she says, "so I've decided to relax and take it easy...
...late October in the one-room Osaka apartment they shared. It turned out Tokuda had been seduced by the mean streets of Osaka. Journalists found ads for a bar, where patrons paid to fondle girls, featuring Tokuda in a slinky beige teddy. Earlier this month, a 17-year-old drifter was charged with murdering her during a botched burglary. He, too, was a runaway...