Word: underworldly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...liberating" a town: say, 2 million to 3 million German marks ($1 million to $2 million), plus all the loot from the police station and bank, plus right of passage for 30 cars, plus everything his men could carry. The Tigers' plunder attracted "weekend warriors" from Belgrade's underworld who would pillage for profit. Arkan brags he does not consider himself a war criminal. An indictment at the Hague, he has reportedly said, would be a "compliment...
...SORDID UNDERWORLD OF SUNny Los Angeles County, where 40,000 children have been removed from their violent, neglectful or drug-addicted families, the pink-stucco True Way Baptist Church may well be a station on the road to salvation. Just ask Delores Mayes, 28, whose children were seized and placed in foster homes when her crack habit got out of hand. Faced with losing them for good, Mayes entered a detox program for six months but had nowhere to take them when she emerged. That is when the church, under contract to the county, stepped in: its outreach workers found...
Leading the new war on software gangsters are two detectives who, like the criminals they are pursuing, have spent the past 20 years in the traditional underworld of homicides, robberies and narcotics. They are Detective Jess Bembry and Sergeant Tom Budds of the Los Angeles County sheriff's department Asian Crime Task Force. Early this year, Bembry flew up to Microsoft's Redmond, Washington, headquarters, where he took a crash course in uncovering software fakery. The company sent him home not really expecting that the department's 11-man team would come close to breaking an international counterfeiting ring...
...true, it's a terrible indictment of Italian society." Building their case on testimony from Mafia turncoats and former members of Andreotti's Christian Democrat party, prosecutors painted a devastating portrait of a political patriarch who mingled with world leaders one moment, then traded favors with Sicily's underworld the next. In response, Andreotti insists he's been set up. He has waived his parliamentary immunity as "senator-for-life" in order to face trial Sept...
Woody Allen rounds up the usual show-biz subjects -- egomaniacal star (Dianne Wiest in a great, bold comic performance), earnest young playwright, desperate producer -- and an underworld hit man (Chazz Palminteri) who has what none of them has: theatrical genius. He teaches them all a thing or two about art and life in Allen's happiest, most assured comedy in many years...