Word: extortionate
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Worst were the empty playgrounds, bathed in the sunshine of that Technicolor autumn. The parks and schoolyards should have been full of children, noisy with glee, burdened by nothing more troubling than skinned knees. Instead, their silence radiated fear. That was Washington in October 2002, when a person or persons...
After his father's death, Marroquín suffered from depression. Landing in impoverished, war-ravaged Mozambique as his family sought refuge, he contemplated suicide as he considered how far his clan had fallen. The family's troubles continued in Buenos Aires. Escobar's widow, now known as Maria Isabel...
Visages, the rebel explosives expert, says he initially swallowed the FARC's rhetoric about Marxist revolution and social justice. But after joining, he watched as firing squads gunned down rebels who were unfairly accused of spying for the army. He says the final straw came when the guerrillas forced his...
It will be some time before the answers to such questions are reached, but in the meantime, the investigation in Chongqing continues to expand. On Wednesday, six of the alleged ringleaders were sentenced to death for murder, assault, extortion and other organized-crime-related charges. The death sentences were part...
DAVID LETTERMAN, on repairing his relationship with his wife after confessing to having sex with female employees. The Late Show host disclosed the affairs, as well as the alleged extortion attempt he faced as a result, on his show Oct. 1