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...Jerry as known as a tough, one of the cool kids. In his neighborhood it's cool to be very tough. It's cool even to be in gang fights sometimes...In his neighborhood, studying doesn't get you too far. In fact, studying would probably get you into trouble and ridiculed...
...People's Daily. "We should talk about something that the people are interested in and that can help them do away with their worries." None of the would-be successors to Deng can spin such sentiments into a platform of action, however, as long as the so-called gang of elders is watching their every move. "It's too dangerous for one to raise his head above the crowd for fear of having it chopped off," observes a diplomat...
...black challenger, Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins, came the murder of Yusuf Hawkins. He was a 16-year- old black who with a group of friends ventured into the tightly knit, mostly Italian Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn to inspect a used car. They were set upon by a gang of whites armed with baseball bats and a gun. When the melee was over, Hawkins lay dead with two bullet wounds in his chest...
...that it will do much good for the country's 128 million other untouchables, or Harijans. Kuchchi's case only underscores how, despite special laws aimed at protecting them, the Harijans face despicably high levels of oppression. Last week a Harijan woman was reportedly burned to death after being gang raped by three men, again in Fatehpur. In 1989 more than 14,000 anti-Harijan atrocities, including 759 rapes and 479 murders, were registered. Countless others went unrecorded because victims fear the police, who are themselves frequently the perpetrators. Often cruelties against Harijans are considered just part of local custom...
...denim, brown leather and black suede. But one suspects that among all the fire eaters and street jugglers, there are more drug peddlers than artists in this crowded scene. "Terrible people," says one old-timer, speaking of Les Halles the way New Yorkers speak of New Jersey. "Terrible suburban gang kids...