Word: ganges
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...undeniable loser--Judge Jackson. The court blasted him for "egregious" violations of the judicial-conduct canons, when he rattled on to the press while the case was pending, offering his opinion that Bill Gates had a "Napoleonic concept of himself and his company" and comparing Microsoft to a drug gang...
...George Orwell taught us to beware of the sign on the wall reading: "Obey." It's best to get used to the idea. Way back in 1989, a Rhode Island School of Design graduate named Shepard Fairey started putting obscure stickers on buildings to promote a skateboard gang. They got attention and Fairey, inspired, kept slapping them up as a kind of mass psychology test: What does the average person make of a public sign that is, essentially, meaningless? The posters, stickers and spray-painted designs often bear the image of the late World Wrestling Federation star Andre the Giant...
...Names I was called by a roving gang of young hoodlums at the Monte Alban archaelogical site: “Chino” (Chinaman), “Jew,” “Kike...
...workers at its Beijing engine factory and issued a document to the police stating that nobody practiced Falun Gong. Had it found Falun Gong followers, says a company spokesman, "the government would have wanted us to report them, so we would have [done so]." Nor is Cummins alone. Chen Gang began working in 1996 for Carlsberg Brewery, the Danish firm that produces one of China's most popular beers. Police last year sentenced him to a year in a Beijing prison for practicing Falun Gong, and relatives say he was tortured when he refused to disavow his beliefs. Chen...
...orders to investigate workers at its engine factory in Beijing, putting its company stamp on a document for police stating that no employees practice Falun Gong. Had it found practitioners, however, "the government would have wanted us to report them, so we would have," says a company spokesperson. Chen Gang began working in 1996 for a joint venture of Carlsberg Breweries, the Danish brewer, and quickly rose to oversee logistics for all of northeast China. Authorities last year sentenced Chen to a year in a Beijing prison for practicing Falun Gong, and tortured him when he refused to disavow...