Word: gangs
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...pressed charges against her alleged assailants, becoming an icon in the fight to eliminate such barbaric tribal customs. (TIME named her one of Asia's Heroes last year for her defiance.) A conventional court sentenced six men to death in August 2002 for ordering and carrying out the gang rape, and Mai used the $8,300 awarded to her by the government to open a village school. But last Thursday, an appeals court...
...main characters, Lulu, a highly spirited girl who frequently bests the "fellers" and their boys-only club, Tubby, the endlessly pratfalling, rotund would-be detective, and Alvin the brat who demands that Lulu tell him stories, form a comedic ensemble cast matched only by the likes of the Peanuts gang...
...think themselves hip, a self-image that melts after contact with Chili’s genuine cool. But when everyone is a gangster there is no such contrast. The characters’ behavior quickly becomes an absurd oversimplification of music business stereotypes: women are sensual, blacks are gang members regardless of their lifestyles, Italians are smooth mobsters, Jews are only interested in money, and gay men are overtly feminine...
...think the trivial tone of the website makes a mockery of the deaths of 340,000 dead human beings in Darfur, the gang rape of countless black women, and the displacement of over 2 million people who now are confronted with the threat of starvation by labeling it as the ‘left-wing cause of the week,’” Terry wrote in an e-mail...
Prosecutors have accused White of holding down Nachtwey while the others beat and stabbed her. Police at the time attributed the murder to gang violence...