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...line, no early-warning system is likely to be fast enough. Last week, 30-year-old construction consultant Yason Waru and his cousin Darni were sifting through the pile of rubble that was once their house. Built just a year ago, it was reduced to a 3-m-high heap of bricks, zinc roofing and chunks of cement in less than five minutes. "When the quake hit we had no time to save anything but ourselves," says Waru. Certainly, they received no earthquake warning from local officials. Because the reality is, it's still impossible to predict with any accuracy...
...equates to defending their own livelihood, these no-talent friends, who either are already quite gangsta or willing to learn, have no problem engaging in knife-work, gunplay, or fisticuffs against other crews in order to keep their man out of jail yet on top of the gangsta rap heap. And the biggest problem is that there is an endless supply of potential hangers-on. In New York City, nearly half of the black men are jobless, not counting those whom are incarcerated. With increasing restrictions in the job market on ex-convicts, being in a gangsta rap entourage...
When Ronald Reagan declared that the unfreedom imposed by communism was simply unsustainable and that it should be not appeased or accommodated, but instead forced--by the power and will of free peoples--into the ash heap of history, he was ridiculed and patronized as a simpleton. Clark Clifford famously called him an amiable dunce. The amiable dunce went on to win the cold...
...economic reforms, suffered a shocking defeat at the polls, partly because of resentment from the poor that they were missing out on the boom. Into office came a government that needed the support of the Communists, and which had promised not to forget those at the bottom of the heap...
...status quo prevailed at the top of the heap when No. 1 Minnesota earned a split against local rival No. 2 Minnesota-Duluth, courtesy of a 1-0 triumph on Sunday...