Word: policemen
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...manifesto: "We are hip-hop. Me, you, everybody... So the next time you ask where hip-hop is going, ask yourself: Where am I going?" On the song Mr. Nigga, Mos Def raps along with Q-Tip about the myriad indignities faced by young blacks at the hands of policemen, waiters and others, even when the young black men in question are rich and successful. "Even if it's never said and lips stay sealed," he raps about his antagonists, "their actions reveal how they really feel." On another track, he questions the size of the defense budget...
...said had been on a two-day cocaine binge. When police arrived, they found Simpson alone and, according to their report, learned that he and Prody had been involved in a "verbal dispute." After issuing Simpson a brochure on domestic violence, as required by law in such situations, the policemen asked him to pose for a picture. The photo op was not viewed kindly at headquarters, and the two cops have been temporarily reassigned to desk duty. That should give them ample time to design what is certain to be two of the department's more noteworthy Christmas cards this...
...troll the Internet for impressionable children, trying to persuade them to meet for sex in the real world. "We've encountered a brand new kind of offender," says Randy Aden, supervisor of Southern California's safe squad. "You don't get the stereotypical bogeyman. You get doctors, lawyers, policemen, firemen--the guy next door." Aided by an infusion of $20 million from Congress in the past two years, the FBI last year brought 698 cases against cyber pedophiles, an increase from...
...monopolization of power, widely respected Kosovar Albanian newspaper editor Baton Haxhiu told the Times, "Each day it is becoming more dangerous to think and speak independently." Part of the problem is that the United Nations has been able to deploy only 156 of the 3,000 policemen promised by member states. President Clinton joins leaders of NATO countries and Balkan leaders for a summit on reconstruction to be held in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on Friday. They?ll have a lot more to discuss than simply mending bridges and rebuilding roads...
...energy and violence of this female rebellion, by the barrage of mockery, interruptions and demands the suffragists hurled and, later, by the sight of viragoes in silk petticoats, matrons with hammers, ladies with stones in their kid gloves, mothers and mill girls unbowed before the forces of judges, policemen and prison wardens. Many suffragists in Britain and the U.S. argued that the Pankhursts' violence--arson, window smashing, picture slashing and hunger strikes--was counterproductive to the cause and fueled misogynistic views of female hysteria. Though the question remains open, the historical record shows shameless government procrastination, broken pledges and obstruction...