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...restless thugs between the ages of 16 and 25 known as Raggare (for their habit of cruising around-ragga in Swedish-in big old American cars). According to one Raggare, the Assyrians are "blackskulls" who deserve to be attacked because "they live off welfare. They sleep until 2. They chase after our Swedish girls." Along with the gypsies and other immigrant groups, they pose the threat of social change, something that neither the hard-drinking, working-class Raggare nor many law-abiding Swedes are willing to face...
Sociobiologists think that evolution has produced different physiques, behavior and attitudes in males and females-a touchy subject for feminists. Trivers says the female is not equipped for the chase and shows no interest in it. And Edward Wilson reminds readers that in the million-year hunter-gatherer period of evolution, men hunted and women stayed home. Adds Wilson: "This strong bias persists in most agricultural societies, and on that ground alone appears to have a genetic origin...
...night of the animals," said Police Sergeant Robert Murphy, who wore a Day-Glo blue riot helmet. "You grab four or five, and a hundred take their place. We come to a scene, and people who aren't looting whistle to warn the others. All we can do is chase people away from a store, and they just run to the next block, to the next store...
...loaded up with couches, refrigerators, TV sets?the durable goods that will sell most easily on the black market. Periodically, when a rumor swept through the pack that the police were coming, the looters would break and run. But the police, outnumbered and fatigued, often did not try to chase them. When I left the area, it was burning, the flames taking what little the looters left behind...
According to the 99-page indictment filed against Holzer by New York Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz, she stole $824,820 from some of her investors in a variety of deals and issued false records "with intent to defraud." One example: an allegedly altered bank statement from a Chase Manhattan branch in Indonesia listed her balance as $10 million. In reality, her deposits at the time were less than...