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...fugitives, who had been living in a trailer park, attending bible classes and mixing with their neighbors, gave themselves up when they were surrounded by heavily armed police. A fifth committed suicide rather than surrender. The gang members, who escaped from prison where they were serving long sentences for rape, murder and other serious crimes, will most likely face the death penalty for allegedly murdering a police officer, who was killed in a shootout when the gang raided a sporting goods store...
...regular topics were local politics and society's war against black males. He also wrote a weekly column, "Tell It Like It Is," for the Champion, a black paper in DeKalb. As far back as 1994, he wrote that the Confederate flag "represents an act of treason, the enslavement, rape, murder and torture of Africans and African Americans. It is beyond belief that any sane person would want to preserve such a hideous legacy." He had few friends among the area's white supremacists...
...exception. Gramsci went beyond Marx to include "also women, racial minorities, and many 'criminals.'" Therefore: The personal - in fact, all life - is political. There are no absolute moral standards: morality is socially constructed. And so on. Gramsci's American descendants, as Fonte notes, include feminists like Catharine MacKinnon ("a rape is not an isolated event or moral transgression or individual interchange gone wrong but an act of terrorism and torture within a systemic context of group subjection, like lynching") and others (in interest groups, government, universities and major corporations) who speak the neo-Marxian rhetoric of categories and conspiracies...
While triumph is part of our history, so too is the economic and social conditions that fostered the brutal gang rape of two mentally retarded children...
INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH Industrial solvent is not most people's idea of a nutritious beverage, yet that is exactly what folks are ingesting when they consume potions containing 1, 4-butanediol, a chemical cousin of the illegal "date-rape" drug GHB. Though so-called dietary supplements containing 1, 4-butanediol are banned--and the pure stuff can melt a plastic-foam cup--1, 4-butanediol is still peddled on the Internet for its supposed body-building, aphrodisiac and energy-boosting powers. Researchers report that in 1999 at least six Americans suffered coma, seizures or respiratory arrest after ingesting 1, 4-butanediol...