Word: ganging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...October 31 ("HUPD Issues Safety Advisory to Community," news story). I live on Memorial Drive, in a cooperative apartment complex full of Harvard professors and retirees. On the night of September 29-30, I was attacked and beaten in Kennedy Park--100 yards from my home--by a gang of six young black males. They hid in the bushes behind the Kennedy School and ran after us in a V-formation, all very professional. I was with a friend from out of town who managed to divert them for a second, and we ran. They did not say they wanted...
...Boston's top street-gang prosecutors, assistant Massachusetts attorney general Paul McLaughlin, was shot dead as he was about to get into his car in a commuter parking lot. At week's end police began discounting the possibility that the murder may have been ordered by a gang...
...rights policy than in the substance of the conference on women's global issues [WOMEN'S RIGHTS, Sept. 18]. The rights of women are a part of all human rights. However, the emphasis should be on the issues facing women in general rather than on the situation in China. GANG XU Athens, Ohio...
Even for hardened Angelenos, the news was ghastly. A wrong turn down a gang-infested dead-end alley, known as Avenue of the Assassins, cost the life of three-year-old Stephanie Kuhen. Gang members reportedly ambushed her family's car and opened fire. At week's end Los Angeles police had four suspects in custody...
Certainly that describes James' penal philosophy, unveiled in April, when Alabama became the nation's first state to restore the prison chain gang, putatively as an "experiment." Last week, judging the experiment successful, the James administration began strapping leg irons every day on 160 prisoners at the Limestone Correctional Facility so they could be sent to break rocks with sledgehammers...