Word: ganges
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...Godfather Cho has done as much as anyone to burnish the image of the gentleman gangster. He has had 21 books published, mostly thinly disguised autobiographical screeds with rosy depictions of gang life. Of course, the books are pure pulp?a sample chapter heading from one 382-page tome: "Oh, Finger Cutting! Such a Bittersweet Glory"?but readers lap them up. His Son of the Fire sold 200,000 copies. Cho chopped off his own pinkie in public in 1974 after an ethnic Korean gunman from Japan shot the wife of dictator Park Chung Hee. Called danji (finger chopping...
...critical October by-elections. Newspapers and opposition politicians have hinted for months?without providing evidence?that Yeo was trying to bribe pols in the President's party to help a businessman from Cholla province, Kim's home region. Yeo was convicted a decade ago of running the biggest gang in the Cholla city of Kwangju...
...that's just a mild reprimand compared with the enthrallingly deranged The Red-Wolf of 1995. Gorgeous Elaine Lui, part of a terrorist gang that has seized a cruise ship, shoots a woman in front of her young daughter. Later, after Elaine is set on fire (the wages of sin and all), her partner-in-evil bundles the little girl in dynamite and leaves her hanging from the ballroom chandelier. What the hero doesn't know is that the button to detonate the tnt is on the sole of the kid's right shoe?so that even if they...
...floor or on tables, surviving on fast food. Those who balk are raped, beaten or burned with cigarettes. A 19-year-old Moldovan woman rescued recently from Kosovo reported not seeing daylight for a month. "I never thought this was possible. These people are animals," she said. One Albanian gang branded its women with tattoos to prevent them from being stolen.Lately, the practice has surfaced in the Balkans in a particularly brutal form. Bosnia, Macedonia and Yugoslavia, once mainly source countries for women lured into the trade (during the Kosovo refugee crisis, traffickers combed the camps for "recruits"), have...
...offenses to Cronje's. And the International Cricket Council's new anti-corruption unit is investigating a veritable roll call of cricket luminaries. Within a game that once prided itself on gentlemanly conduct, reaction ranges from concern to misery. Says former Indian captain Bishen Bedi: "The game has been gang-raped...