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...jazz age thug carefully steps into a huge hollow cake; his job is to pop out later and gun down a big gangster. A henchman hands the thug a machine gun, then warns him, "And don't mess up the cake. I promised to bring back a piece for my kids...
...associate, “jungle,” is a form of aggressive electronic music, grouped with trance and house (think: Lansdowne) but with closer ties to hip-hop both culturally and compositionally. Drum ’n’ bass raves are populated by hooded figures in comfortable thug-wear and sneakers, sporting “don’t fuck with me” attitudes and the tribal tattoos and piercings to hammer them home. They often break it down with some break-dancing, windmilling and flaring in a circle of testosterone, and live emcees can spit rhymes...
...past, however, how will Cambodia ever face its future? Half a world away former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's U.N. war crimes trial has just begun. Compared to butchers like Kang Khek Leu, who ran the Khmer Rouge's notorious S21 torture center, Milosevic is a petty thug. It should have been the war crimes tribunal of the latter half of the 20th century?but the Khmer Rouge may be the genocidists who got away...
HarvardWatch staged a protest outside the Harvard Faculty Club yesterday, chanting, “We don’t need no Enron thug, Harvard give the boot...
Mafiosi, of course, do not punctuate their conversation with "Allah is great!" and "Praise Allah!" The bin Laden home movie mixes ejaculations of piety with postgame Islamic towel snapping and a chillingly cynical amusement at the sucker martyrs. Combine the piety and the thug's mirth, and you get something of that lounging insolence with which Satan, at the opening of the Book of Job, answers God's "Whence comest thou?" with: "From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it." A sneering theological swagger. Evil usually feels comfortable with itself...