Word: ganges
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...Wire is that rare specimen, a work about social issues that is not boring. Last season detailed a single investigation of a drug gang, which--just as rare for TV--got as much screen time and character depth as the cops. And as the police tangled with bureaucratic politics and the gang unfolded its secrets like a black Sopranos family, it became a story about the collapse of faith in institutions and the death of inner cities...
...because these citizens see no credible alternative in the current 1 1/2-party system. What the Dems need is a genuine fire-breathing, rabble-rousing populist. Anyone can be "strong on defense," but winning back disaffected progressive voters requires a candidate with the guts to forcefully denounce Bush and his gang. DOUG ABBOTT Silver City...
...alighted to speak with the "monks," several truckloads of men from the Union Solidarity and Development Association, a military-backed civilian group, turned up wearing white armbands and blocked the motorcade front and back while other thugs spilled out of the woods lining the road. They were armed like gang members on a rampage, brandishing sharpened bamboo staves, clubs, metal cudgels, bricks and stones...
...built some of his closest relationships with the Hole in the Wall Gang...
Krish will spend next year in Durban, South Africa, on a $25,000 Richardson Fellowship in public service to start up a camp based on the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp’s mission of providing a place for seriously ill children. The difference is that in South Africa, orphans, street children and children with HIV will comprise a significantly higher proportion of the campers...