Word: gangly
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...Disney and its gang - and Comcast, not to be counted out by any means - the upside of a marriage is pretty much the same: all of Lord Armstrong?s lands and a big step up on the ladder to the content-and-technology, one-stop-shopping convergence heaven everybody swears is the future of broadband...
...shunned by her village elders, and spent her early teenage years in the violent world of the Dacoits - the storied bandits who roam the desolate plains of northern India. Devi exploded into the national consciousness in 1981, as the 21-year-old leader of a Dacoit gang that massacred 21 men of the Thakur landowning caste in the village of Bhemai. The massacre was a brutal revenge attack - Devi had been held prisoner and repeatedly gang-raped by upper-caste men of the village earlier the same year. And while it established her notoriety as one of India?s most...
...grew into a legendary outlaw. He forced girlfriends to prove their loyalty by murdering innocent folk. His clutch of ruffians shot their way into banks and jewelry stores across central China, killing 28 people before the police finally nabbed him. For James, the end came when a turncoat gang member in 1882 shot him in the back. A state executioner dispatched Zhang in a similar fashion in May. But that wasn't the end of the story. Days after his death, China's most progressive newspaper, Southern Weekend, weighed in with a characteristically cheeky eulogy. It condemned Zhang's violence...
...Still, the pressure is likely to ease at some point, as China's cycle of repression and liberalization makes another spin. Consider the recent track record of Southern Weekend's stable of editors. Qian Gang, recently removed as senior editor in charge of news decisions, made his name in the early 1980s for the first critical book on the government's response to the 1976 Tangshan earthquake that killed 2 million people. In 1989 he was sacked from an army newspaper for questioning the Tiananmen massacre. A decade later he lost a job on television for what was then...
...Despite the author's even-handed treatment, Veerappan comes across as a calculating and vengeful villain. He carries around a bullet inscribed with the name of the police officer whom he holds responsible for the death of his brother and fellow gang member, Arjunan. In one of the book's more chilling anecdotes, he kills and then, drawing a sickle from his bag, graphically beheads a forest officer who had built a local school and clinic and tried to wean the community away from criminal activity. Veerappan blamed the official for the suicide of his sister who worked...