Word: thugs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After losing most of its key players to graduation last year (including super-thug Bruce Coles and recently-signed Boston Bruin Joe Juneau), the Engineers plunged into the depths of Division I mediocrity, closing the season in 10th place and barely scraping into the playoffs...
...countless women. She was (we now suppose) the last innocent child in America, an 18-year-old Sunday School teacher fresh from high school graduation in a tiny Rhode Island town. When Desiree Washington met Mike Tyson at a beauty pageant last July, she saw not the pug and thug of tabloid legend but a young man wearing a TOGETHER WITH CHRIST button who was praying with Jesse Jackson. Tyson, it appears, saw a late-night snack...
...think it's disgraceful and irresponsible toinvite to Harvard a thug and a criminal who shouldbe in jail for having threatened to kill a Harvardstudent," Dershowitz said...
...certainly has freedom of speech and theright to speak, but the idea that a responsiblestudent group at Harvard would invite thisextortionist thug and give him the imprimatur of aHarvard group is utterlyirresponsible," he added. "It's clearly motivatedby a desire to stick it to the Jews...
...Georgian rebels discredited the country's fledgling democratic institutions and opened the way for the kind of cyclical struggle between armed political clans that has hampered the growth of democracy elsewhere in the developing world. Says Soviet nationalities expert Paul Goble: "The idea that Gamsakhurdia is a fascist thug being replaced by liberals is nonsense." Not only is Georgia's own future clouded, but there is no guarantee that similar events might not be repeated tomorrow in any of the former Soviet republics, given the explosive mix of ethnic, economic, political and military problems confronting them...