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...people stopped believing in the system. And into the void stepped young men who took matters into their own well-armed hands. Two gangs in particular--the Dooney Boys and 3 'n' G, both associated with poor neighborhoods in the city--were tearing up the streets in a nauseating, perpetual cycle of revenge...
...Kings and other, largely Latino and Asian gangs have been arrested for mostly nonviolent crimes. Those organizations have not yet set up operations, but the trend concerns Bernazzani, who says they had no presence in the city before Katrina. Houston drug dealers may also be trying to enter the void, says Michele Leonhart, the No. 2 in charge of the DEA. "Houston-based traffickers are using New Orleans refugees as guides to open up the market. They say, 'Hey, why don't you drive with me to New Orleans for the day, and I'll let you in on some...
...feud over how to restructure the partsmaker, whose fate is tied to the automaker's. GM has agreed to take back as many as 5,000 Delphi workers, and thousands more are being offered buyouts. But Delphi chief Robert (Steve) Miller has asked the bankruptcy court for permission to void labor contracts, which would allow him to slash wages if the unions won't concede--a move that could spark a strike. He also wants more financial support from GM. Delphi workers, for their part, are furious that the firm wants to cut their wages 40% while company lawyers...
...members casting ballots.But at the time, the council overlooked an existing clause in its constitution requiring a two-thirds majority for changing the bylaws.The council’s parliamentarian footnoted the constitution to say that “the two-thirds requirement for amending the Bylaws is null and void, and the majority requirement is operative.”But last month, representative Matthew R. Greenfield ’08 tried to turn back the clock. He proposed a constitutional amendment that would restore the two-thirds requirement for bylaws changes.The council voted 31-0-4 for Greenfield?...
...several of the stories—and in the fictional “Taskbook for the New Nation,” from which he has lifted the epigraphs to the book’s four sections—Saunders also draws on the semantically void self-inflations of the vocabulary of the War on Terror...