Word: ganges
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...Despair in Zimbabwe I have watched the downward spiral in Zimbabwe for more than 20 years [The World, Dec. 8]. Robert Mugabe and his gang ensured the country's downfall, and the crippling of its citizens and its political opposition to a point where no solution is possible however hard Morgan Tsvangirai works. The world leaders (including Thabo Mbeki and most political leaders in Africa) chose to ignore the real problem: Mugabe - a corrupt and possibly mentally unstable power freak. My appeal to the world is to get into Zimbabwe now and help put this country and its struggling citizens...
Batista's Dec. 10 kidnapping seems to point to a likely source of that scared life: Mexican police. Not because they fail to catch the kidnappers but because they often are the kidnappers. Sometimes narco-criminals, especially the notorious Zetas gang, do the deed; but since Mexico's abduction spree began more than a decade ago, cops have almost always been involved (as they often are in narco-related crime as well). Federal police officers who allegedly form a kidnapping gang called La Banda de la Flor (the Flower Gang) were recently arrested in the case of Marti, whose decomposed...
...Young men like Breininger are dangerous for what they can do, of course. But they are also dangerous for what they represent: the first generation of German terrorists since the Baader-Meinhoff gang formed the left-wing Red Army Faction (RAF) in the 1970s...
...argument against all this is that FICA finances Social Security payments, and the connection between money in and money out helps keep Social Security secure. There's a simple answer: among the many problems we now face, the danger that a majority in Congress will gang up against Social Security benefits must surely rank...
...resident research fellow at Union Theological Seminary, New York City, during the presidential election of November 1960, when Kennedy narrowly defeated Nixon. This was, we felt, the beginning of a new age. Many people have a similar feeling today. Please, Mr. Obama, demonstrate your distance from the discredited neocon gang by abandoning this symbol of nationalistic unilateralism. Alaisdair Raynham, TRURO, ENGLAND...