Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nothing can hurt the duck but its bill," Larry Hoover liked to tell members of his gang. The parable--one of many bits of wisdom the leader of the largest street gang in the U.S. was fond of imparting to his followers--implied that a duck is safe so long as it doesn't open its mouth and start making noise. It was a sound precept. And one that "the Chairman," as he is known, no doubt reflected upon during the eight weeks he spent in a Chicago federal courtroom watching the jury listen to secretly recorded conversations through which...
...Detroit. In between sessions, Gore sped from one photo opportunity to the next with the city's hugely popular black mayor, Dennis Archer. They toured the new African-American history museum, inspected operations at a corrugated-box plant owned by a former Pistons star, and chatted with ex-gang members operating heavy machinery on an assembly line in the city's most blighted area...
Television is another common ground, and inside some cable boxes can be found the Classic Sports Network. Recently, the network has been airing a 1956 edition of Happy Felton's Knothole Gang. This was a pregame show shot at Ebbets Field, in which three Little Leaguers played catch with one of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and in this particular show, Vinnie, Richie and Louie from St. Bernadette's got to work out for Robinson. The kids enjoy an easy rapport with Robinson as they toss him questions and he tosses them grounders. There is no racial subtext. There isn't even...
...story of two detectives, partners, one black, one white, through the sweltering heat and gathering racial tensions of a deadly Chicago summer. The novel works as a kind of Venality Fair--it's a shade better than pretty good--mainly because even the author's minor characters--sleazy black gang bangers and brain-fried white neo-Nazis--are expertly sketched. And the two detectives are well drawn, without much Butch-and-Sundance romanticizing. They like and respect each other, yet there is a gulf between them that is not race prejudice but simply an unbridgeably different racial experience. Ellis...
Regarding Kevin Davis's March 18 Tech Talk column on Apple: yes, it is tempting for The Crimson, like so many other media outlets, to join in the "let's gang up on Apple" phenomenon. In fact, many have been claiming the imminent demise of Apple for the last 15 years, and it has never happened...