Word: kingpins
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...doesn't know any of the answers but somehow manages to talk all of the time, distracting the other children from the lesson and making an hour-long class seem like it will never end. My silver-chain wearing, Eminem-reciting, classical-music-is-only-for-white-people kingpin informed me one sticky afternoon that he couldn’t play the scheduled freezedance because, besides me, there were no “women” in the class with whom to freezedance—or should I say “freakdance.” He then produced...
Wrestling Personality Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley Her dad, WWF kingpin Vince, had her "kidnapped." She returned to be women's "champion." Part Joan Collins, part Patty Hearst--and tougher than both...
...Juan Garza is a different story. Most people have never heard of the 44-year-old marijuana trafficker who was convicted in 1993 in Brownsville, Texas, of murdering one associate and ordering the killings of two others. He was sentenced to death under a 1988 drug kingpin law. He also happens to be Hispanic, one of 17 minorities among the 20 (about to be 21) convicts on the Feds' death...
...young Jiang attended Philadelphia's Drexel University, where he earned a Ph.D in physics, after which he founded Shanghai Alliance Investment Ltd. The firm got stakes in the city's biggest infrastructure projects, including its airport and the broadband network, and that established Jiang the younger as Shanghai's kingpin of information technology. He reportedly met Wong in 1995, during a visit to the U.S. The first thing they found in common was their birthdays. Then they discovered matching ambitions, and began talking deals...
...took an interest in politics, donating more than $150,000 to Democratic causes, including $10,000 to the 2000 Democratic National Committee. Letters of support from several leading California pols and a Roman Catholic Cardinal helped persuade Clinton to commute Vignali's sentence. Angry prosecutors call Vignali a drug kingpin; defenders say he was just a minor player...