Word: gangly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...attracting tourism: they're an anticrime initiative. Philadelphia has grappled with a murder-a-day crime rate that is among the highest in America's big cities. For many years, the city's rampant graffiti problem was seen as closely linked to more violent crimes, whether explicitly as gang markings or simply as a sign of neighborhoods in disrepair. But in 1984 then mayor W. Wilson Goode made a fateful decision: instead of declaring war on the spray-painting vandals, he would offer them amnesty. Goode gave Jane Golden--a petite, white, high-energy, Stanford-educated muralist--a six-week...
...financial as much as political gain. "Rumors are going around that the Koreans are worth $1 million a head," says Parliamentarian Khalid Pashtun. "So of course this is going to encourage more kidnappings." At this point it's unclear if Meier's abductors are insurgents or simply a criminal gang going for a more lucrative target. But unlike cases of kidnapped locals, Afghan security forces have already launched a massive operation to retrieve the missing German. With 3,000 German troops in the country, Afghanistan can't afford to lose favor with one of its strongest supporters...
...Taliban is demanding the release of 8 insurgent captives - a concession the Afghan government, with the support of the U.S., has refused to consider. While the assault on the Koreans is clearly related to the insurgency, it appears that the German engineers were initially abducted by a criminal gang who may have passed them into Taliban hands...
...Kabul-based businesswoman, are the very people who are essential to Afghanistan's success. "These are the people who are driving Afghanistan's economy: the entrepreneurs, the business owners. Once they are under attack, what hope does Afghanistan have?" Local entrepreneur Nasrullah Rahmati was assaulted by a kidnapping gang last year while driving with his brother in an affluent part of town. They both managed to escape but his brother was wounded, and the would-be kidnappers made off with $3,000 in cash. Rahmati reported the incident to the police, but nothing came of their investigation. "My every moment...
...himself to kill because decades ago they were in the same orphanage. Detective Carter (Tucker), demoted to traffic cop, hooks up with Lee and wheedles his way into a trip to Paris, where an international dignitary (Max von Sydow) has given them the mission to hunt down the triad gang and its secret boss. Anyone who's seen von Sydow in Three Days of the Condor, Majority Report or several other thrillers he's made on vacation from his great Ingmar Bergman films doesn't need me to finger Monsieur Big. It would be the movie's biggest surprise...