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...rivalries are beginning again," Sgt. Brian Harris, a Gang Murder Squad investigator and the top detective on the case, told TIME. Unlike gangs in Houston, which are usually affiliated with the Bloods and the Crips and deal in crack, the New Orleans groups are strictly based on local fault lines, formed around housing projects, and deal mostly in heroin, he said...
...better about our own place in the pack. The American ideal of opportunity for all, which AI embodies, may be a blessing or a myth. But either way, it can also be oppressive. Because the corollary is that if you don't achieve your dreams, it's your own fault--you had your chance...
Both sides might look to college dropout Jessica Schutte, 23, to make their point. When Schutte got pregnant in the fall of 2004, her family members urged her to have an abortion, but she resisted, figuring it wasn't her baby's fault that she hadn't used birth control. Things didn't work out with her boyfriend, so he started making calls to find her a place to live and came upon Our Lady's Inn, a St. Louis maternity home. Schutte was 8 1/2 months along and terrified when she moved in, figuring that she had landed...
Because the Time Warner board has thirteen directors elected through a plurality voting system, Icahn would have to identify eight current directors whom he wants his allies to vote against. When asked if Clark was one of his targets, Icahn initially said that all the directors were at fault for Time Warner’s performance, but later backtracked and pointed out that Clark was not a member of the board that approved what he deemed the disastrous merger between Time Warner and America Online...
...representing the underclass. Second, liberals want to believe that the people who fight in unjust wars don’t have any other choice. If that’s true, then the troops bear no responsibility for the war in Iraq; it’s all the fault of the chickenhawk in the White House. After my column on this issue, one of Harvard’s few military officers informed me of a Heritage Foundation study which claims that the American military is actually about as representative of the American public as anyone could hope. The study argues that...