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...shotgun-toting swat team -- and TV camera crews, to be sure -- police chief Daryl Gates elatedly joined in the arrest of three suspects wanted for the beating of truck driver Reginald Denny at the outset of the Los Angeles riots. Leading the 2 a.m. raid into South Central with flak jacket and side arm, Gates personally collared one of the suspects, Damian Williams, whose nickname is "Football," and escorted him into a squad car. "Chief Gates, you're going!" Williams told the retiring police chief, according to what Gates recounted later. The chief must have thought...
...first night of rioting, a local man watching Castillo's crew put out a fire at a nearby grocery was gunned down by a sniper and hospitalized. In the warm spring weather, fire fighters were forced to don flak jackets to protect themselves from attack...
...unchecked growth -- during which CEO pay grew four times as fast as the income of the average worker and three times the rate of corporate profits -- executive compensation has become a hot-button issue. From investors, big and small, to public officials at every level, ceos are catching flak as never before...
...pronounced the 1990 budget compromise the biggest mistake of his presidency. To make matters worse, he virtually admitted that cynical political calculations had dictated the latest U-turn. "Listen, if I had to do that over, I wouldn't do it," he told reporters. "Look at all the flak it's taking." Bush was less than convincing when he announced, while campaigning in the South a few days later, that "life means nothing without fidelity to principles...
...course, Ice-T and the gang have garnered considerable flak for what many women and progressives say are misogynistic lyrics. However, had they ever listened to the man's material (though it would never pass a piety test with your local reverend), they might have seen the light. "Men Is Bitches Too," from Original Gangster, Ice-T's last rap album, clarifies this otherwise vulgar star 's broad definition of the term. A "bitch," he says, is anyone who turns on his friends, his community or himself. He, like other West Coast luminaries with different styles (think Slayer), claim that...