Word: knifings
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Ncolela Phaliso becomes so angry during a quarrel with his brother and business partner, Godun, that he cuts off his sibling's tongue with a kitchen knife. Later, Ncolela's wife, Hlubi, is found with her throat slit and her breasts severed from her body. Although Godun is the prime suspect, no charge is laid, and the feuding brothers continue to run their Soweto-based security company together...
...pollution is pretty bad over there. I think it could really have an effect unless they clean it up. You could cut it with a knife...
...your team traveled to Beijing for exhibition games. Do you think the pollution there is going to affect the Olympics? -Ian Kachemov, Highland, Md.The pollution is pretty bad over there. I think it could really have an effect unless they clean it up. You could cut it with a knife...
...just tabloid talk. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, at his first press conference of 2008, said: "Kids are out of control ... They're roaming the streets. They're out late at night. There's an issue about gangs in Britain and an issue about gun crime as well as knife crime...
Ahmed says he joined a local gang when he was 12 but left after he was pressured to carry a knife and sell drugs. The son of a childminder from Somalia and a retired academic from Kenya, he plans to become a doctor. Edwards is aiming for a legal career. Why have the two of them turned out so differently from friends who are embroiled in gang life? "Most of them come from poorer backgrounds," says Edwards, who then adds what may be the most important factor. "We're smart," he says, "and we've got our education...