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...humor, he asks lots of questions about SAT vocabulary and allusions to the likes of 1950s X-ray glasses constructed out of cardboard and a feather. He watches episodes five or six times, laughing progressively more at each new viewing. In addition to stretching his cerebrum, Peter and the gang inspire him to pack it with particularly knee-slapping scenes and to reenact them for anyone willing to listen. And since his friends tirelessly reference TV and movies, he now feels more comfortable being social via the show’s ideas. Finally, with a new eye for absurdity...
...Guard largely gone, his men are stretched thin, answering calls about looters and snakes. "We have lots of reptile infestations," says Stephens, who fled one house after encountering 15 water moccasins. "[That's] not in my contract." His men last week caught beasts of a different kind--an organized gang of looters...
...confronting Israeli soldiers when the official Palestinian military fled. But the group ran its refugee camps, towns and villages as gangster fiefs. With the Israelis gone, locals say it has increasingly turned to racketeering and extortion. Despite Abbas' ban on the public display of weapons, members of the gang can still be seen on Gaza's streets, openly toting their M-16 and AK-47 assault rifles. And Abu Samhadana has become a strident critic of Abbas and his henchmen, whom he views as ineffectual. "The reason for the chaos is the weakness of the Palestinian Authority," he says...
...some of the most vicious" in the state's history. Sims and Underwood were also charged with rape in connection with another attack on immigrants. Some 20 homes in nearby Hispanic communities have been invaded in recent months, and officials say these suspects may be part of a gang targeting workers who, without papers to open bank accounts, carry large amounts of cash...
Levi attempts authenticity by hanging with Carl, a spoken-word genius straight from the city’s depths, and a gang of angry Haitians who sell knock-off Prada and CD’s, three for $10. Returning to Wellington, he sees the school: “The pristine white spires of the college seemed to him like the watchtowers of a prison to which he was returning.” Levi tries to escape, but Smith fails to specify where, and if, he finds a better home...