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...right wrist that reads 1986-2004. "My childhood," he explains. "I've been working since I was 10; 2004 is when I decided I became an adult. It was a personal decision." When it's pointed out to LaBeouf that the AA meetings and agent hounding of his youth might suggest he attained adulthood earlier, he shrugs. "But I'm living in a child's world now," LaBeouf says. "A dream world. I go to sleep at night, and I feel like I just dreamed the whole...
FIDEL CASTRO, recovering Cuban leader, lambasting U.S. foreign policy in a July 1 essay in Cuba's Communist Youth newspaper, Juventud Rebelde...
...Zealand Police Sergeant Louis Ott is dealing with the fourth stabbing in an hour. It's a wet Saturday night in south Auckland, and Ott and constable Brent Stevenson are questioning a shivering youth as blood congeals in a gash to his nose. "I fell over," says the boy, blinking in the light of Ott's torch. "C'mon, bro," says Ott. "How would you feel if someone got badly stabbed tonight, and died, by the same people that did this?" The teenager, who is mysteriously wearing a clean shirt turned inside out, admits that the wound, from...
...would be happy never to hear of any of them again. "I get completely sick of them," he says. The youth gang members, sporting baseball hats, baggy trousers and colored scarves, are armed and hyper-aggressive, and speak in a rapper idiom straight out of south-central Los Angeles. Ott mimics their delivery: "I'd like to say to these kids, 'Hey, wake up, bro. You are not going to bust a cap in my mo'fo' ass. You live in a suburban street in Counties Manukau...
...series of tit-for-tat drive-by shootings that left a toddler dead; meanwhile the country's juvenile gangs have emerged as a new force in crime, linked to eight killings and many hundreds of other violent crimes in the past two years. Sully Paea is a youth worker who tries to reform young gang members. "We've already lost one generation to the gangs," he says. "The generation we are working with now-the 14-, 15- and 16-year-olds-some of them are hard-core, already gone. These kids are cold...