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Kennedy calls the phenomenon a "formless street scene" with three tiers. The first is petty criminals who may or may not have gang affiliations. Then there are actual gangs such as Crips, Bloods and MS-13, whose members wear colors, use hand signs and tags and stake out turf. At the highest level is organized crime like the Mafia, which largely eschews violence (until deemed necessary) because it's bad for business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Experts: Street Crime Too Often Blamed on Gangs | 9/2/2009 | See Source »

...Thursday's rioting began after Israeli security forces launched a surprise raid on a house in the Palestinian part of Hebron occupied by settlers whose eviction had been ordered by the Supreme Court. Young settlers from the militant, although largely formless and leaderless Hilltop Youth movement had flocked to Hebron vowing to resist the eviction at all cost. If the court order was implemented, they warned, Israel would experience the trauma of Jew killing Jew. They also threatened that the price tag of an eviction would take the form of random violence against Palestinian innocents. But by catching the diehards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israeli Settler Youth on the Rampage in Hebron | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...Torturing Nurse This Shanghai three-piece make a sound so brutal, unforgiving and formless, other underground bands sound effete by comparison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Come On Feel the Noise | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...community of learned men,” and that his education was intended to give him something more than a lucrative career. He claims that there is more to living in a civil society than being an unfettered individual and so is an anachronism, the sworn enemy of the formless, unstructured diversity that we must venerate...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg | Title: The Harvard Man Must Die | 10/26/2007 | See Source »

...culture of competitive college admissions is so indoctrinated it that defies delineation, a formless but pervasive factor that’s shaped the lives of Wang, her friends, and, as the argument goes, too many of the students applying to college...

Author: By Gracye Y. Cheng, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Playing Catch Up | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

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