Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Voting in the midterm elections was still a few days away, but Republican Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island was already feeling lonesome for the old gang. Surveying the voluntary departures of such Senate moderates as Minnesota's David Durenberger and Missouri's John Danforth as well as worrying about the loss of several others on Tuesday, a mournful Chafee said, "I'd like to say we're going to have some unforeseen support, but I must say, the middle is shrinking...
...four years of undercover work, Steven Galster has been all over the world, from the black markets of Zimbabwe to the back alleys of Moscow. Most of the time, he has felt reasonably safe -- but not always. "I had one meeting with a Russian gang that had been burned before," he says, "and I had a funny feeling about it. I was wired up and wearing a hidden camera, but I decided to take off the recorder and hide it in my gym bag. They frisked me, but it was O.K." It might have easily gone otherwise: the people...
...author also makes a conscious decision, however, to challenge the idea of the twenty-something generation as a bunch of self-indulgent white kids with chips on their shoulders. In an extreme contrast, he gives us a portrait of Anthony, a LA gang member. "It's Vietnam out here," he says of the neighborhood where he was born, but he finds himself undeniably drawn back to it. After several moves around the country, he says he has made the decision to stay. The most important quality of "Same City, Different Worlds--South Central Los Angeles" is its uncompromising look...
Home-school parents retort that the socialization children experience in schools is not necessarily healthy: it may be competitive, even intimidating and violent. "I do not think that gang membership is proper social development," says Donna Nichols-White, who has home schooled her three children after having to teach herself how to write. "Whenever people mention the problem of gang membership, I mention that the common factor amongst all gang members is that they attended school at some time in their lives...
...kids were on "disciplinary removal," hanging out unsupervised and causing trouble on the block. "I would intervene in a street fight four or five times a week," says Handy. "Every morning the white students, especially the girls, would wait until after 9 a.m. to show up, because of gang violence against them...