Word: worst
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Miami was prepared for the worst as the trial of police officer William Lozano, charged with killing two unarmed black men last January, came to an end last week. Their deaths sparked three days of burning and looting. Twice before in the 1980s, riots followed the acquittals of white or Hispanic police officers charged with killing blacks. As police were suiting up for more trouble, a jury of three whites, two blacks and one Hispanic broke the cycle of violence by convicting Lozano on two counts of manslaughter...
While another flare-up was averted, reaction to the verdict split along Miami's racial fault lines. Hispanics said the officer was being sacrificed to appease blacks. But in the Overtown ghetto, the site of January's worst rioting, some residents marched in celebration. "This is what the black community has been waiting for," said Overtown resident Alice Johnson, 43. "Justice...
...exams, but at least they could look forward to the cheering prospect of Christmas vacation afterward. That tidy calendar was suddenly and tragically shattered last week in a hail of semiautomatic rifle fire ignited by a bizarre sexual hatred. When the climactic hour ended, Canada had suffered the worst mass murder in its history...
While businesses and individuals may conceal their assets for purposes that are completely legal, or dubious at worst, the systems set up for their convenience can be perversely efficient at helping drug barons launder as much as $100 billion a year in U.S. proceeds. "It is hard to understand why we failed for so long to institute adequate controls," says Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry, chairman of the Senate's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations. The state of regulation is "so lackadaisical," says Kerry, "it's almost damnable...
...What's the worst case you can imagine...