Word: gangs
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...This event will change Australia, I'm sure of it," said Dave Hanson, president of the God Squad Christian biker gang. "People will start asking questions about Jesus. Their curiosity will grow. This is bigger than Catholicism. This is about the Gospel, the Good News...
There's a special place in the United States Senate for the skunk, the single-minded dissident who refuses to go along with the gang and instead uses stubbornness, tenure and the chamber's arcane rules to advance himself and his causes. In the modern Senate, no one played that role as effectively as Jesse Helms, who died early Friday in Raleigh, N.C., at 86. For 30 years, Helms took controversial, sometimes outrageous positions on race, foreign relations and the culture wars, courting controversy and infuriating rivals but often outmaneuvering his centrist and liberal rivals. In the process, he also...
...That's because it's a pretty standard celebrity drama. In the beginning he was a tall, devastatingly handsome young man, with a polite, soft-spoken gift for ingratiation. This he employed to worm his way into the confidence of the Hell's Angels, the outlaw motorcycle gang, becoming a participant-observer in their rites and rituals and writing about them acutely in what I think remains his best book. There followed his Fear and Loathing books about Las Vegas and the political campaign of 1972. These books had their moments, of course, but there was something hysterical about...
...Obama usually left a winner. But he reaped a bigger payoff politically. When he announced his plans to run for the U.S. Senate, his poker pals - white guys from small-town Illinois - were among his earliest supporters. Link says the Wednesday-night gang didn't realize how far Obama would go: "Nobody said, 'Mr. President, it's your deal.' " But Obama's risk-averse, methodical approach to five-card stud gives Link confidence in his potential governing style. "If he runs his presidency the way he plays poker, I'll sleep good at night," he says...
...city of Wellington, part of Palm Beach County. The two, along with at least one other person, allegedly concocted a plan in February to buy 55 townhomes in Fort Lauderdale, inflate their values and establish "straw borrowers" whose incomes were pumped up to qualify for the big loans. The gang reportedly hoped to make as much as $8 million in profits after they got the loans and then abandoned the homes to foreclosure...