Word: ganges
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...year tradition is evidence of the close ties between Mexico and Texas, but those ties seem lately to be fraying as the 1,250-mile border becomes increasingly dangerous. To the east of Laredo, renegade Mexican Army commandos are part of the Zetas, a brutal drug smuggling gang, and Laredo's sister city, Nuevo Laredo, once a favorite spot among Texans for weekend shopping trips, has been wracked with kidnappings, political assassinations and even a shootout between police and drug gangs near an international bridge...
...subject?) and how they will be taught (with a focus on small sections or on huge lecture courses?). Indeed, it is telling of the process’s incompleteness that the etymology was just hammered out this past summer, in secret, under the supervision of a “Gang of Five” senior Faculty members...
...recommendations of the HCCR cannot faithfully be implemented until CGE’s are fully formed and ready to deploy. To hasten this process, the “Gang of Five,” or whoever chooses to be in charge, can begin by making CGE’s unambiguously central to general education. In a pedagogy which celebrates student choice, this means they must be incentivized. If students take a year-long CGE, it should count for a full distribution requirement—the equivalent of three courses, not just two. Students won’t really be cheating...
Crime may be down in New Orleans, but many of the city's bad guys seem to be turning up in Houston, which finds itself caught in the cross hairs of an apparent gang war between Hurricane Katrina evacuees from two rival housing projects. On Friday, Houston's newly formed Gang Murder Squad announced the arrest of eight men from New Orleans suspected in 11 murders in the Houston area over the past three months. "These guys are hooking up with friends and old rivalries are beginning again," Sgt. Brian Harris, a Gang Murder Squad investigator and the top detective...
...When the Gang Murder Squad began investigating a series of Houston-area shootings starting in November, detectives quickly discovered a tie among the victims and suspects. Police said the same nicknames and the same vehicles kept popping up in various attacks. "Of 23 Katrina-related homicides in Houston, we linked nine to just two groups from New Orleans-the 3'n'G and the Dooney boys," Harris told TIME. The Dooney boys, who come from the Magnolia Projects just west of downtown New Orleans, home of the slain rapper Soulja Slim, are old rivals of the 3'n'G (named...