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...That first poem in the Boston Review, “[dogs and boys can treat you like trash. and dogs do love trash]” has the triplet rhyming that you often find in rap. I must say that Sugarhill Gang and Grandmaster Flash were as important to me as Gertrude Stein and John Keats. I don’t think that’s true of every poet...
...Jazeera: Not the Capital Gang...
...didn't come from the tanks that rolled almost as far as the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. They were from small undercover units. Sources in the domestic intelligence service tell TIME that officers from a Jerusalem police undercover unit nabbed Mahmed Rimawi, one of the gang that allegedly killed Ze'evi, from a hideout in the hostile Kalandia refugee camp. Another undercover team found a second member of the hit squad, Salah Alawi, hiding under a car outside his house on the outskirts of Jerusalem. And in the West Bank village of Doura, an undercover unit...
...Pakistan, heroes are in short supply. But ask any Pakistani whom they admire most, and they'll all mention the name of a former shopkeeper, a poor man from Karachi named Abdul Sattar Edhi. Karachi is a violent town; there are murders most every night. Gang wars, vendettas, crimes over women or money. And nobody collected the bodies. Then, a few years back, Edhi started going around the city at night with a cart, gathering up the bodies as though they were his own kin, washing them and giving then a decent Muslim burial. He still does that...
...AWARDED. PETER CAREY, 58, the Booker Prize for his book True History of the Kelly Gang, a fictionalized account of Australian legend Ned Kelly, the notorious outback gangster-turned-Robin Hood; in London. Carey became the second author in the prize's 33-year history to win twice, after South African J.M. Coetzee. Carey first won the Booker in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda. DIED. JAY LIVINGSTON, 86, Oscar-winning composer and lyricist whose collaboration with Ray Evans produced such hits as Silver Bells and Que Sera Sera; in Los Angeles. During their 64-year partnership the duo received seven...