Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CAPITAL GANG" is one of those cheesy Washington talk shows currently passing for insightful political discourse. You've seen the type--they all feature loud, obnoxious chattering about the same topics, and they all feature Pat Buchanan. But "The Capital Gang" offers the Outrages of the Week at the end of every show, and the Outrages of the Week are cool...
Before July 15, most residents were preoccupied with rising property taxes, gang violence and renewed efforts to ban nude dancing. Civic boosters lauded themselves for snaring two Miss U.S.A. pageants in a row. But all the factors that make Wichita a nice place to raise a family -- its manageable size, heartland values and high standards of civility -- also proved irresistible to out-of-state Operation Rescue activists. Though largely pro-choice, Wichita contains all the ingredients for staging a militant morality play on abortion. Says Steve Smith, assistant managing editor of the Wichita Eagle: "We're on the fringes...
...Gang of Eight was caught between the feud and the change. Its coup looked like Stalin's ruthlessness written on the fifth carbon, a smudgy, illegible piece of work. It was fitting that stupidity should be a prevailing theme. An oafish brainlessness has for decades hung over the Soviet communist venture like one of Nikita Khrushchev's suits. Its secret has never been intelligence but rather ruthlessness. The cardinal rule of coupmaking, says Edward Luttwak of Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies, is "to seize control of all the centers of power in one fell swoop, to paralyze...
Black-clad German skinheads from both parts of the newly united country parade through the streets of Dresden to mourn their hero Rainer Sonntag, killed by a gang of pimps in a dispute over turf. Silent onlookers and 1,500 police watch as the 2,000 neo-Nazis raise their arms and shout, "Sieg heil!" and "Foreigners...
...sterile, high-rise housing project in southeast London, Rolan Adams, a black teenager, steps out of one of the neighborhood's few youth clubs. A gang of whites jump him and stab him to death. Of the nine whites arrested, five are acquitted, and four still face trial. The Adams family is receiving phone calls from people who say they are glad Rolan is dead...