Word: lynching
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...Steve Harvey, have been murdered - and a crowd even celebrated over Williamson's mutilated body. Perhaps most disturbing, many anti-gay assaults have been acts of mob violence. In 2004, a teen was almost killed when his father learned his son was gay and invited a group to lynch the boy at his school. Months later, witnesses say, police egged on another mob that stabbed and stoned a gay man to death in Montego Bay. And this year a Kingston man, Nokia Cowan, drowned after a crowd shouting "batty boy" (a Jamaican epithet for homosexual) chased him off a pier...
...Murphy, the Merrill Lynch automotive analyst, said in a note to investors that a strike remains a very real threat as long there is no agreement on issues beyond the buyout proposal. Delphi chief executive Robert "Steve" Miller is pressing for more concessions and has said he will petition the court next week to set aside the company's existing labor contracts if there is no agreement with the UAW and other unions. Last fall, Miller briefly proposed cutting the wages of Delphi workers by 63%; the union has warned that a strike is possible if the court imposes...
...funeral procession, a security checkpoint, and the headquarters of the police major crimes unit. At least 56 people died. While the insurgent enemy's ability to operate had been badly crimped since March 12 by the sprawling urban offensive dubbed Operation Scales of Justice, a candid Major General Rick Lynch - the official U.S. military spokesman in Iraq - admitted,"Today he found gaps...
...military?s weekly press briefing, Gen. Lynch reminded reporters of the progress being made. The artfully persuasive general repeatedly insisted that 75% of the Iraqi troops and police required to hold the country together were now in place. Where there were 100,000 security personnel a year ago, now 241,000 are in the field, he said. A third of last week?s operations had no Coalition thumbprint; they were conceived, planned and executed by Iraqis. Just over a third more were conducted jointly, leaving U.S. grunts to pound out less than a third on their own, a marked difference...
...times a day, though only one quarter of those assaults are deemed effective. That?s no real difference from a year ago, or even longer. The enemy, despite it all, seems little dented. Each success is hard fought in Iraq. And may not necessarily last long at all. As Lynch rightly puts it, "This is a tough business...