Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...finale production number revealed more second-hand material. Significant plagiarism of Sam & Dave's "Hold On, I'm Coming" and Kool and the Gang's "Celebration" blemished the score, previously marked only by a humorous reference to Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto. The orchestra seemed weary as well, though its strong rhythm section pushed onwards...
ARISTIDE MAY HAVE ABOLISHED the army, but life is still perilous on Haiti's mean streets, where the poor are growing impatient and predatory. Near the National Palace, a woman who cadges $1 secretes it for safekeeping in her underpants. A gang of thugs dubbed the Red Army ravages Cite Soleil, a Port-au-Prince slum that police are afraid to enter: the last time they did, a shoot-out claimed the lives of several innocent bystanders. In La Saline members of a local vigilante patrol discover the dead body of their leader. They swiftly select four suspected "robbers...
...phony charges, according to the Nilson Report, a credit-card industry newsletter. Nigeria has produced so many credit-card bandits that the U.S. Secret Service joined with other federal agencies in the 1980s to form a special West African Task Force that helped nab Adekanbi. According to authorities, his gang used counterfeit cards to obtain at least $650,000 in goods and cash advances and had access to lines of credit worth $8 million. Officials suspect that this loot is only a fraction of the thieves' real total...
Adekanbi had previously been deported from the U.S. for credit-card fraud, only to filter back by using a fake passport. When police arrested him, his two-bedroom Queens apartment was littered with boxes of stolen credit-card slips that, authorities believed, gang members used to set up phony accounts. The closets were stuffed with fashionable men's suits, chic handbags and Italian leather shoes, with price tags attached. Adekanbi, says assistant district attorney Diane Peress, "liked to play Santa Claus" by responding to shopping lists from friends in Nigeria. They will surely miss...
...staying on message. Says Stephanopoulos: "The President set the tone for the year Tuesday night. Now we have to reinforce, reinforce." Clinton must also avoid lapsing into self-pity, an occupational hazard for late 20th century Presidents, and making gaffes like the one in Texas, when he told a gang of corporate honchos that those tricky Republicans made him raise their taxes...