Word: gangly
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...MISSING SOMETHING? THE ELEphants want to take money and health care away from the poor elderly and give it to the wealthy [THE ECONOMY, Oct. 30]. What's wrong with this picture? If Newt Gingrich and his gang think the $245 billion tax cut is going to encourage an outpouring of philanthropy, they are sorely mistaken. History has proved that the haves do not take care of the have-nots. Or maybe Newt et al. want the cut because it benefits them personally. KATE DOBBS Indianapolis, Indiana...
...your run-of-the-mill broncobuster. But he is the winner of this year's All-Around Champion Cowboy title at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Site of the only all-inmate rodeo in the nation, Angola is home to what the event's organizers tout as a "gang of crazy convict cowboys." Among them: all-around runner-up Johnny Brooks, right, who owes his title to skillful bull riding and a botched grocery-store robbery; and Terry Hawkins, a former butcher-shop employee who killed his supervisor with a hammer and went on to win this year...
...would probably be impossible to write a musical about gang warfare, racism, police brutality, and attempted rape. Drive-by shootings aren't the kind of thing out-of-towners spend $50 to see on the Great White Way. But Leonard Bernstein's "West Side Story" comes from a more innocent time, when a knife fight could seem a natural subject for a ballet, and a line like "got a rocket in your pocket" didn't automatically provoke knowing winks from the audience. To present that musical now, without turning it into pure kitsch, requires a daunting level of sincerity...
...have learned that another violent crime may have been omitted from the warning. In a letter to the Crimson, Mash-tots Professor of Armenian Studies James R. Russell informed us that on the night of September 29 he and a friend were attacked and beaten by a gang of six young men. The attack occured in Kennedy Park, close to Professor Russell's apartment. He wrote in his letter that the men "said they wanted to kill us." He and his friend were able to run away...
...interview yesterday, Russell said he was attacked and beaten by "a gang of six young black males" while walking through the park with a friend on September...