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Jambanja is a word the Shona people of Zimbabwe use to mean "to turn everything upside down, to cause violent confusion." Of late it has come to refer to the practice of running white Zimbabwean farmers, many of whom have been there for generations, off their land. Peter Godwin, a white Zimbabwean, has observed quite a bit of jambanja at uncomfortably close quarters, and he has meticulously recorded his outraged, torchlit impressions in this remarkable memoir: the harassment, the chanting mobs, the beating of the elderly, the pointless destruction of food-bearing land, all the smashed crockery of a peaceful...
Imus' words keep repeating in my head, like a violent, midday mugging. One minute, you're putting gas in your tank. The next: BANG! A gun in your face. Your response to being violently blindsided is not anger but a debilitating sense of violation and helplessness. If Imus is fired tomorrow, I won't feel any better. I'll still be wondering who else sees a "jigaboo...
...court held that at a retrial we get to go deeper into other violent conduct by not only Michael Colono, but also Samuel Rodriguez,” Parker said...
Quinlan was soon prompted to revisit her decision, when five months later the SJC allowed, in the case Commonwealth v. Adjutant, the admission of a victim’s violent history regardless of whether or not that history was known to the defendant...
...Adjutant, in this case the identity of the first aggressor was essential, and the defendant sought aggressively and repeatedly to introduce evidence of Colono and Rodriguez’s violent histories to illuminate the matter,” wrote Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall in the opinion...