Word: gangly
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...addition to the case's bizarre back story--the defendants kept the dogs for a neo-Nazi gang member serving time in a maximum-security prison--the defense provided other fireworks for the media circus in attendance. In her opening statement, Knoller's attorney Nedra Ruiz (who studied at the American Conservatory Theater) cried, kicked the jury box and crawled on the floor to re-create the attack. During closing arguments, Ruiz played the lesbian card (Whipple was gay) and accused the victim's lover, Sharon Smith, of perjury. She also suggested that the prosecution withheld evidence "to curry favor...
...that is not the hard part of his job. Most days Shanahan worries about the Latin King gang members on his block; he strains to say something useful about God to bored eighth-graders preparing for confirmation; he hustles for donations so that their school, attached to the church, won't close; he visits people like Jim Pulizzie, who is dying of cancer in his living room and looks terrified...
...veterans began two years ago. The day after Mugabe's inauguration speech, in which he raged against traitorous "snakes" and vowed to accelerate his "land reform" policy, 55-year-old Ford was dragged from his home at Norton, about 40 km west of the capital, Harare, by a gang of about 20 men, tied up against a tree and shot in the head. Later the police recovered a firearm and arrested six men who, they said, would be charged with murder. Ford's farm adjoins a large estate owned by Mugabe himself...
With the election over, the farmers are back in the firing line. Zimbabwe's Commercial Farmers' Union has been receiving reports of escalating violence throughout the country. These include the attack on the farm of Iain and Kerry Kay at Marondera, 80 km east of Harare, where a gang of "war veterans" savagely beat her son Jon with pick-axe handles and clubbed the black family security guard, Darlington Vikaveka, to death. Kerry Kay, a prominent human-rights defender who is head of the CFU's AIDS-control program, says that the attack was a repeat of a similar incident...
...want our protectors to go in our name? There's no simple answer. Mackey (played by Michael Chiklis, of the lame sitcom Daddio, with surprising cocksure charisma), runs the elite strike-team unit in one of L.A.'s. toughest precincts. But the unit is really a gang itself--corrupt, racist and bullying (even to other cops) and running its own testosterone-charged...