Word: ganges
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...President Dick Cheney's energy task force, which is destined to become better known for the controversy it spawned than the report it issued. Two public-interest groups and the General Accounting Office, an arm of Congress, are suing the Administration for information about the doings of Cheney's gang. But Cheney and Bush are clutching to each Post-it note, insisting that Vice Presidents (and Presidents) should be allowed to get unvarnished advice without the pesky public or Congress knowing who is giving it. Defending that principle has meant coping with a daily dose of unpleasant stories pointing...
...title role in the 1945 gangster classic Dillinger, in addition to roles in more than 70 other films. His drinking landed him in bar brawls and headlines in his midcentury heyday, and eventually sidelined his career. A comeback in the '80s and '90s culminated in his role as a gang leader in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 crime drama Reservoir Dogs...
...tough-guy roles in 1940s and '50s films noirs; in Los Angeles. Over an 80-movie career, Tierney was best known for playing the title role in the 1945 gangster classic Dillinger, and enjoyed a resurgence of fame at age 73 playing the sinister leader of a criminal gang in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 cult film Reservoir Dogs. DIED. SPIKE MILLIGAN, 83, irreverent comedian and founding member of The Goon Show, the anarchic 1950s radio series co-starring Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine and Peter Sellers that redefined modern British humor; in Rye, England. Milligan started his career...
...Thailand, Buddhist temples often adopt a certain constituency?teachers, sailors, doctors?and become its spiritual sanctuary. Wat Bang Phra, an hour's drive west of Bangkok, has taken in nakleng?hit men, gang members, ex-cons, professional hoods, the kind of people you wouldn't normally go to temple with...
...With the demise of the two most potent of the Arellano-Felix brothers, the rich Tijuana "plaza," as the drug smuggling corridor is known, is up for grabs, and there will almost surely be a gang war for control, "I'm sure there will be different groups trying to step up to the plate trying to take over this area," says Hutchinson, "but this gives a window of opportunity for the law to reclaim this territory...