Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gang, one of the leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstration, told Lowell House residents Monday night that he finally felt truly free after being smuggled out of China more than 10 days...
Many admirers referred to those qualities last week, but Mario Cuomo's son Andrew probably captured them best when he recalled a visit to Los Angeles in March 1993, when Brown and Cuomo were delivering an aid package to the city. Outside a sporting-goods shop staffed by former gang members, Cuomo and Brown played basketball with the ex-gangsters for the benefit of the TV cameras. "The gang people were big," said Cuomo. "This was not going to be much of a contest. So Ron took the ball, and with the cameras rolling, he set up at half court...
...traveling Pentecostal "boy preacher," which began at age four. But when it comes to his forays into racially charged controversies, Sharpton's account is self-servingly selective. Take his rendition of the saga of Tawana Brawley, the black teenager whose sensational claims of having been raped by a gang of white men kept New York City on the edge of racial meltdown for months. Nowhere does Sharpton mention his ridiculous allegation that she had been victimized by an Irish Republican Army conspiracy organized in a suburban sheriff's department. Even though Brawley's story has been thoroughly discredited not only...
...into the Marines. The issue took a serious turn following the March 5 murder of a Marine lieutenant colonel at Camp Pendleton, California, allegedly by a sergeant under his command. The suspect has a tattooed teardrop coming out of the corner of his left eye, which may be a gang symbol. Under current Marine regulations, though, a teardrop is perfectly unobjectionable. That is expected to change. A corps panel is codifying the rules for just what types of tattoos will pass Marine muster...
...from the Department of Defense -- and not the Army -- the panel recommends that the Army push Defense to tighten the ban on active participation in hate groups by the troops. More troubling for an institution long praised for its racial integration are findings that racism is on the rise: "Gang-related activities appear to be more pervasive than extremist activities on and near Army installations and are becoming a significant concern for many soldiers. Much gang activity was territorially and racially defined," the report notes. "The army has an approximately 21 percent turnover rate every year," says Pentagon correspondent Mark...