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...books like "Gotham" and [Herbert Asbury's] "The Gangs of New York," just to try to get a feel and essence of this time. It truly is a forgotten time; it's like the wild west in New York. I mean, at one point New York really wanted to succeed from the union. They thought of themselves as an entity unto themselves...
Indian gaming interests have come up with a one-two punch that is helping them get their way with politicians. Indian constituents, acknowledged as long-suffering victims of ill-conceived government policies, often succeed at requesting political favors. Meanwhile, they or their wealthy backers are dumping money--staggering amounts of it--into political campaigns, lobbying and state ballot initiatives. This combination has helped create the out-of-control world of Indian gaming, a world where the leaders of newly wealthy tribes have so much political power that they can flout the rights of neighboring communities, poorer tribes and even some...
...high school, Lott was elected student-body president, as well as most popular, most likely to succeed, most polite and neatest. Only his close friends knew of the trouble he faced at home. His parents quarreled constantly--about the money his father spent on bourbon and cigarettes, the nights away from home and his mother's suspicions that Chester Sr. was seeing other women. Young Trent often had to act as a mediator. He recalls, "It made me grow up at an early age." Friends say it also gave him traits common among the children of alcoholics: a desire...
...tapped by the leading Millennium Democratic Party as the candidate to succeed Kim, is committed to engagement. A self-taught lawyer who never attended university, Roh acquired his liberal credentials by defending students and workers on strike who ran foul of the country's draconian national securities law. A card-carrying idealist, he once suggested that U.S. troops be ejected from Korean soil...
...free-spiritedness, of course, and those who have known us the longest can see the crimson in our camouflage right away. Regardless of the belated rebellion we claim, even if we have the new piercings, sexual wisdom or addictive habits to prove it, they see the same determination to succeed they remember from the pre-smackdown glory days, back in the little pond...