Word: ganges
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...According to the Federal Statistics Office, juvenile convictions surged from 2,000 in 1999 to 14,106 in 2005. Two recent cases that sparked public outrage involved a 5-year-old-girl being raped by a 13-year-old from the Balkans, and the gang-rape of a 13-year-old by a group that consisted mostly of immigrants...
...Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Bob Ford (Casey Affleck) is a soulful young punk who wants to join up with Jesse (Brad Pitt) and his outlaw gang, whose exploits have made them notorious throughout the burgeoning West of the 1870s. Bob has read all the dime novels about Jesse and wants to rob his way into infamy. But the gang is breaking down from envy and exhaustion--and from the natural rancor of ornery, armed men. Bob is too late for the party; he's just in time for the funeral...
...weary of fame. "Jesse is very conscious of his own mortality," says Dominik. "He's imprisoned by the weight of his own myth." The man is fixin' to die and waiting to see who'll be his executioner. Jesse could be Vincent Chase on HBO's Entourage, and the gang his posse. But instead of bathing in the overspill of his limelight, they're jealous, rancorous. Instead of partying with the star, they want to kill...
JUAN MANUEL SANTOS, Colombian Defense Minister, on the arrest of Diego Montoya, the head of the country's most dangerous cocaine gang, who was captured in his underwear during a military raid...
...than a dozen times since being expelled in 1971, when the U.N. granted China's seat to Beijing. American censure, therefore, comes mostly out of a desire to avoid upsetting what has always been a tenuous peace between the mainland and Taiwan. In July, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang warned the proposed vote could "have a grave impact on cross-Straits relations and seriously endanger peace and stability across the Straits and Asia-Pacific region...