Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alleged group sexual assaults on college campuses are perpetrated by athletes; fraternities are blamed for the majority of such attacks. Where are the coaches, the administrators, the alumni forever touting the value of male bonding? Where is the outrage from the good kids, the ones who don't gang-rape the drunken girl at the beer blast but hear their friends snickering about it the next...
...York, protestors at the Central Park jogger trial followed Sharpton's lead and heckled the gang rape victim by calling her "slut" and "liar." Many prominent Black leaders--including some from the local NAACP--complained about the disproportionate media attention paid to the jogger, who is white. Only in the wake of public outrage did they denounce the savagery and lawlessness of the crime...
...suffered a serious success as the central dramatic character, Princess Leia Organa, in the great modern movie myth Star Wars. Fisher then moved to New York City, determined to seek her fortune without the Reynolds wrap. She became a regular homegirl of the Samurai Night Live gang. She was good friends with the late John Belushi and seriously dated Dan Aykroyd. She casually nurtured an acting career with two more Star Wars films, had a role in Under the Rainbow and a part in The Blues Brothers...
...late 1930s, millions of Americans tuned their radio dials one evening a week to the latest adventure of Gang Busters. Each episode opened with a cacophony of sound effects -- marching feet, a burst of machine-gun fire, sirens wailing. The din itself told a story: the mobilization of the forces of good against those of evil; a climactic conflict; finally, the removal of the dead and wounded. Then a stentorian voice blared an all-points bulletin: "Calling the G-men! Calling all Americans to war on the underworld...
...invective flew, the negotiators continued to meet far into the night in House Speaker Tom Foley's conference room. The "Gang of Eight," three from the Administration and five from the Hill, inched forward by discussing a compromise that would include a modest variation on the capital- gains scheme: instead of a cut in the rates, the value of assets sold would be indexed so that profits resulting from inflation would be exempt from taxation...