Word: fistfuls
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FRAUD, CORRUPTION, INTIMIDATION. The tribes' secrecy about financial affairs--and the complicity of government oversight agencies--has guaranteed that abuses in Indian country growing out of the surge in gaming riches go undetected, unreported and unprosecuted. Tribal leaders sometimes rule with an iron fist. Dissent is crushed. Cronyism flourishes. Those who question how much the casinos really make, where the money goes or even tribal operations in general may be banished. Indians who challenge the system are often intimidated, harassed and threatened with reprisals or physical harm. They risk the loss of their jobs, homes and income. Margarite Faras...
...breathless three hours, he sounds a cautionary note on the perils of directing films in China. "You start off with all 10 fingers," he lectures, holding his hands in front of his face, "and you may wind up at the end with only one." He wraps a fist around his pinky, and delivers the moral: "Then you just have to hold on to that one finger and protect it as much as you can. That's the only way you can keep a little bit of yourself in the film...
...Mailed Fist...
...there always money for war and there’s never money for the human condition?” Lewis demanded, slamming his fist on the podium. “Why is war sacrosanct and African lives are expendable...
...League moment of all-time? More memorable than Carlton Fisk’s 1975 Game Six home run, Hank Aaron’s record-breaking 715th career homer or Kirk Gibson’s “I don’t believe what I just saw” fist pumping blast in the 1988 World Series? It’s a great record, but it’s not really a baseball moment. He just showed...