Word: feuding
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...border would not, at first glance, suspect that a combat zone was at hand. Yet for more than a century, bloody civil strife has roiled the region embraced by Mingo County, W. Va., and Pike County, Ky. There in the late 1800s, the Hatfield and McCoy families began a feud so lethal and long that it became legend. Then in 1920 the early struggles of the region's coal miners to unionize exploded into a fray that left nine people dead and is still remembered as "the Matewan massacre." Now the area around the same little town of Matewan...
Since his election in 1983 as Chicago's first black mayor, Democrat Harold Washington has been entangled in an epic feud with the party's long-entrenched regulars, led by Alderman Edward Vrdolyak. The result has been legislative paralysis, with the 21 city council votes that Washington controls more than canceled out by the 29 loyal to Vrdolyak. Last week, however, a federal judge ordered special aldermanic elections on March 18 that will probably narrow the margin and could give the mayor the decisive votes. The balloting could ultimately deliver the coup de grace to Chicago's once formidable Democratic...
...FEUD OF THE WEEK
...family ties thicker than political ones? Not in Illinois when a Governor nearing a re-election campaign is pitted against a street-smart ward politico who happens to be his father-in-law. The simmering feud between Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and his wife's father, Chicago alderman Dick Mell, reached a boiling point last week. In a press conference, the Governor lashed out at his in-law amid reports that a grand jury is investigating allegations by Mell that Blagojevich's administration traded jobs for campaign contributions. Blagojevich denied the charges and asserted that the investigation was started only...
...Girls Don't Stop None of them are Brazilian, and only one is a girl, but this foursome uses bossa nova, reggae, lounge and any teasing rhythm to create a dance track you might actually dance to. 50 Cent Candy Shop For a guy who once sparked a rap feud by accusing Ja Rule of being too soft, Fitty engages Olivia in a whispery duet about mutual satisfaction, built on a slithering Middle Eastern keyboard riff that makes him sound awfully, uh, considerate. Bloc Party Helicopter While aspiring to postpunk art-house dance music, Bloc Party wisely refuses...