Word: messing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brothers, though, have protectors: the police, politicians and religious hierarchy. These worthies are at first unwilling to believe in Lavin's crimes; then they cover up the mess, forgetting that the young victims have wounds that may not heal. Already abandoned, the orphans have been betrayed by men who invoke God as a threat and use a caress as torture...
Given this history, Bill Clinton's failure to revive baseball, which may have surprised some, didn't surprise us. Clinton's only real weapon, moral suasion, has never trumped greed--and greed is what this whole sorry mess is all about. ``It's just a few hundred folks trying to figure out how to divide nearly $2 billion,'' said the President plaintively. ``They ought to be able to do that.'' Clinton obviously didn't understand that the baseball strike is like Somalia: simple on the outside, a quagmire once you're in. Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who enjoyed a cushy...
...however, Congress may be called in to help right a fiscal and bureaucratic mess. Representative James T. Walsh of New York, chairman of the congressional subcommittee that oversees the District's financial affairs, said he has already contacted White House officials to hash out bailout scenarios, including the establishment of a board to take control of city finances. Walsh told that his congressional colleagues are leery of Barry's proposal because the District has failed to make good on promised cuts in the past. ``The Mayor has basically said we should give him $267 million...
Maggie Conlon (Crissy Rock) is a working-class mess. She has had four children by four men. She tries her best to take care of the kids, but she has also lived with a man who beat her in front of them. (``He never, ever touched the kids,'' she says defensively. ``You gotta give him that.'') Once, when she and her brood were staying in a welfare hotel, she locked them inside the flat and went to a pub; there was a fire, and the children were injured. Social Services removed them to foster homes...
Officials at the union, including business agent Kathleen Conway, who is largely responsible for the mess at the Fogg, aren't returning The Crimson's phone calls...