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...have never heard of the Monkey Wrench Gang-unless you read the 1975 novel by maverick writer and nature lover Edward Abbey, who introduced the world to a fictional collection of green misfits waging a guerrilla war against industrialization in the American West. They sabotage bulldozers and construction sites, burn billboards and destroy dams, all to keep their beloved Southwestern desert pristine. Think of it as muscular environmentalism, a world apart from the wonky work on climate change that now defines the mainstream green movement...
...Shooting one-and-one again, the freshman missed the front end, but the ball bounced into the corner near the Penn bench and Eggleston beat Miller to it and called time. Sophomore guard Tyler Bernardini caught the inbounds pass but was gang-corralled and forced to use his team’s last timeout with 22 seconds left...
Police have not said exactly who they think is behind the arsons. In the early hours of Sunday, as firefighters were finishing up at the scene of the latest fire, Matthews told local media that the blazes "may in fact be gang-related," but he has not repeated that statement in other news reports. Eggleston refused to confirm the gang connection on Monday, but he did say the fires are clearly the work of more than one arsonist. He wouldn't speculate, though, on whether they were coordinated events or unrelated copycat incidents. "We don't want to divulge...
Pawlowski, meanwhile, says he wouldn't be surprised to find the arsons are gang-related. He says he has seen an increase in graffiti using the names of famous gangs such as the Bloods and Crips in the past two years and has led community efforts to remove it. However, it is unclear whether this reflects real gang activity or simply wannabes. Either way, Pawlowski says, allowing the graffiti to remain simply perpetuates decay and emboldens whoever put it there...
...rest of the country, is feeling the effects of the recession; the city is also in the middle of something of a crime wave. Two teens were killed and seven injured in a shooting outside an under-21 nightclub last weekend. Only 10 days earlier, there had been a gang-related shooting in broad daylight. How does a public servant go about his duties with so much public outrage and sniggering? "This is something between Sam and Portland," says Wiener. "Sam's got some repair work he needs...