Word: ganges
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...Guard largely gone, his men are stretched thin, answering calls about looters and snakes. "We have lots of reptile infestations," says Stephens, who fled one house after encountering 15 water moccasins. "[That's] not in my contract." His men last week caught beasts of a different kind--an organized gang of looters...
Levi attempts authenticity by hanging with Carl, a spoken-word genius straight from the city’s depths, and a gang of angry Haitians who sell knock-off Prada and CD’s, three for $10. Returning to Wellington, he sees the school: “The pristine white spires of the college seemed to him like the watchtowers of a prison to which he was returning.” Levi tries to escape, but Smith fails to specify where, and if, he finds a better home...
...five members, known as the “Gang of Five,” met and exchanged e-mails over the summer to produce the report, after a draft written by the full committee last spring received scathing criticism from the Faculty Council for lacking a guiding vision...
Strike helped a former gang member pull his life together, Langford helped a lifelong smoker quit, Vandenberg worked with the family of a Colombian refugee, and Porter mentored the children of substance abusers. Not everyone was receptive to their attempts, but, Strike says, “the best thing was seeing people use the gospel of Jesus Christ to change their lives...
While the “Gang of Five” met in person only a few times over the summer, e-mails were circulated regularly and several authors contributed to the draft report, which is significantly longer and more thorough than the much-maligned report released to the Faculty Council last March...