Word: hoodlum
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...common cause with al-Qaeda. According to the government's account, he approached them with the idea of detonating a "dirty bomb" in a U.S. city, and they obliged by teaching him to wire a bomb. The impression, in the government's own account, is of a former street hoodlum desperate to join a new gang - and being kept at arm's length. An outsider taught to build a bomb (what's not to like, for al-Qaeda, about a U.S. passport holder asking to be taught how to kill his countrymen?) but not necessarily integrated into the organization...
...result of a rivalry; Ly's family has described him as "a good kid" who wasn't part of a gang. The incident was only the latest in a string of gang-related assaults in a town that has become notorious for a new breed of criminal: the cybercafe hoodlum. "A lot of the good kids won't come here any more," says PC Caf? manager Eric Cho. "It's definitely hurt our business...
Cockrell has even managed to co-opt, through private meetings, the gangs that used to terrorize Fox Tech's hallways. Carlos Reyes, a self-described former hoodlum, credits Fox Tech with turning his life around. Now a junior and a B student, he encourages his "crew" to keep their feuds off campus...
...times in a row in a friend's basement. The moment I "got" rock took place at home when I was four and my father introduced me to the Coasters--with a little explication, I discerned that Yakety Yak was a satirical broadside against parents ("Just tell your hoodlum friends outside/You ain't got time to take a ride"), and I insisted that it be played six or seven times a day. When my father tried to open me up to the woefully inadequate Beatles, I'm pretty sure I tried to break something. Before I was literate...
...streets of Compton, Calif. "F--- tha Police" shocked mainstream America, but it resonated with the youth of the hip-hop nation. And it proved frighteningly prophetic when L.A. erupted in riots that shocked the world two years later. N.W.A. spawned a new breed of rapper, styled as gun-toting hoodlum supposedly giving suburban America a frightening peek into ghetto life - the group knew from pretty early on that about 80 percent of the people buying their albums were white, middle-class kids. Although the industry was happy to cash in, pressure by conservative advocacy groups on major corporations such...