Word: violente
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...Middlesex Superior Court judge granted Pring-Wilson a retrial, after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that evidence about a victim’s violent past could be used at trial. That decision invalidated Pring-Wilson’s earlier conviction...
...suburban home during an apparent break-in, it also felt tragically familiar. Taylor, 24, a standout safety for the Washington Redskins, was an equally stellar defensive back for the University of Miami Hurricanes. And his untimely death was just the latest in what has become an unsettling succession of violent ends for active and former UM players...
...culture that coaches and administrators have too often indulged. The team rocketed to prominence in the 1980s by showcasing what fans and critics alike called thug-ball, a smash-mouth gridiron style that seemed to reflect the city the Hurricanes played for: Miami in the era of Vice, of violent cocaine cowboys and shamelessly venal politicians. Controversial rap music star Luther Campbell of the Miami group 2 Live Crew offered "bounties" to UM players who could knock opposing players out of a game with an injury. Whenever Notre Dame played UM, the game was billed as Catholics vs. Convicts...
...long ago, Medellin, not Baghdad, was considered the world's most violent city. Now where gun battles between drug gangs once raged in the Santo Domingo-Savio neighborhood sits a shiny new library: a perfect place to enjoy a book, and an even better place to witness the transformation of a city and of an entire country, Colombia, once known as the global capital of murder, kidnap and cocaine...
...looking at everybody," he said. "I would be interested to know what each of them has to say, or would be trying to do, to keep this from happening again. You shouldn't be sitting in your living room wondering whether someone with a history of violent acts is going to break through your door. How they handle this will affect who I support...