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...DIED. KOOSE MUNISWAMY VEERAPPAN, 60, India's most wanted bandit; in a 20-minute jungle shootout with police; near Madras, India. Regarded by the country's poor as a Robin Hood who fought the rulers on their behalf, he was accused of murdering 130 forest officials and police officers, slaughtering 2,000 elephants, and smuggling millions of dollars' worth of illegal sandalwood and ivory. The outlaw, who lived in the forest, was ambushed after he was reportedly lured by disguised police into a makeshift ambulance, believing he was on his way to see a doctor for his ailing eyes...
...five of eight charges, is one of seven charged in the scandal; his sentence is the longest of the three imposed thus far. DIED. KOOSE MUNISWAMY VEERAPPAN, 60, India's most-wanted bandit; in a jungle shootout with police; near Chennai, India. Regarded by the poor as a Robin Hood who fought the ruling classes on their behalf, he was accused of murdering 130 police officers, slaughtering elephants and smuggling millions of dollars of illegal sandalwood and ivory. The outlaw, who lived in the forest, was reportedly lured to his death by his doctor, who talked him into an ambulance...
...From the debate, which most commentators awarded to him, Latham and his campaign seemed to draw new vigor, and by the time he announced Labor's key education policy later that week, the Opposition leader was shaking off his "Mogadon Man" tag. This plan, including a so-called "Robin Hood" redistribution of $A520 million in funding from 67 wealthy private schools to poorer private schools, was perhaps the most hotly debated of the campaign, derided by the Prime Minister as "old-fashioned class warfare" and defended by Labor as a return to the "fair go" ethic it placed...
...asked for the time, despite the presence of several other riders in my car. A seasoned late-night passenger, I thought that perhaps I had mastered the technique of making myself appear more imposing than I really am by curling up into a fetal position and pulling the hood of my jacket over my head, thereby hiding my lanky frame and boyish face while I slept. Yet beneath the heavy green fabric of my Abercrombie sweatshirt, I must have exuded an aura of accessibility, for, despite my best efforts, I proved unable to shake my innocuous but unwanted interlocutors...
...Like Me," Buck boasts: "I know I got a dirty mouth, bitch, I'm from the South / I'm nothin' like what you done seen or you done heard about." But from the gunshots that open the album to the gritty tales of life in the 'hood to the vicious threats against rival rappers like Ja Rule, everything sounds very familiar. Buck embraces the same themes and uses the same thundering beats featured in the solo albums of his G-Unit counterparts 50 Cent (Get Rich Or Die Tryin') and Lloyd Banks (The Hunger for More...