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Detective Sergeant Mike Keefe, a member of the Minneapolis force’s homicide unit, said this afternoon that the teen is believed to be a member of the Sureno 13 street gang...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Teen Charged In Leverett Senior's Murder | 5/5/2006 | See Source »

...breakfast.Looking at it from this perspective, almost every creative work could be found “derivative” by clever lawyers. Didn’t I hear that Franz Ferdinand chord progression somewhere before? I certainly did, and not just because I’m a disillusioned Gang of Four fan. By definition, culture is collaborative. Some of the richest masterpieces of the Western literary canon are thoroughly infused with Biblical and mythological language. If Homer had better legal representation, would James Joyce’s Ulysses have ever been published? Intertextuality isn’t just a word...

Author: By Will B. Payne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kaavya Viswanathan—Master Sampler? | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

...instead to act as little more than a commercial entity—would be disappointing enough on its own. But somehow, the video manages to bastardize just about everything in it. As their Civics look on, a strangely choreographed fight breaks out between the Peas and a rival gang; but—and I never thought I’d say this—the breakdance fight fails to amuse. As does the computerized bowling ball that systematically bounces through another gang in a “Fight Club”-esque garage. The video even falls flat when Fergie...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Popscreen: Black Eyed Peas | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

...local council in the Pakistani border state of Punjab ordered the gang rape of Mukhtar Mai in 2002 after her brother was seen walking with a girl from a rival tribe. After Mai spoke out, the government gave her $8,300 in compensation, which she used to found a school to educate young women in Pakistan. She has gained international acclaim largely due to columns penned by New York Times op-ed writer Nicholas D. Kristof ’81, whose readers have sent Mai over $130,000 through this past November.Kristof, a former Crimson editor, has written that...

Author: By Ariadne C. Medler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Punjabi Rape Victim Speaks | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

...have children getting killed by gang leaders and dope dealers. We have real issues here ... And we're dealing with foie gras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: May 8, 2006 | 4/30/2006 | See Source »

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