Set amidst the Nigerian crime scene in Woolwich (S.E. London) during the early noughties—the young Wale (who recently arrived in the UK from Lagos) is enticed into a life of ’419’ crime…Wale teams up with an old friend…and his ‘colleagues,’ and the fraudulent crew set about…a mission to achieve…wealth, gain notoriety and enjoy women…however they soon…realise some harsh truths about each another.
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…Sanjay Dutt has surrendered before a Mumbai court and will begin serving time for a weapons conviction linked to a deadly terror attack in the city in 1993. The Bollywood actor surrendered on Thursday to a five-year jail sentence handed by India’s Supreme Court in March for illegal possession of weapons supplied by mafia bosses linked to the terror attack, which killed 257 people in the city ten years ago.
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We’ve kind of enlisted the help of the gangs…If your goal is not gang eradication, which none of us knows how to do, but instead violence reduction, and you enlist the gangs as aids, then you begin to change the physics of the neighborhood…We’re doing it with the cooperation of the gangs because they’re so powerful—they control some of the neighborhoods. We get them into classes and training, and we say, if you help us stop the violence, we’re not going to hold your past against you. Everyone agrees we should keep the kids safe… [bloodshed wasn’t just the result of gang identification and drug disputes, but also personal grudges and simply] the power of the barrel of a gun…If you don’t give them a way to exert power legitimately, they’ll do it another way.
Connie Rice, Los Angeles civil rights attorney
In 2003 police brass asked Rice to help them formulate a new strategy for coping with LA’s…gang violence. The effort resulted in the Office of Gang Reduction and Youth Development, an initiative housed in the LA mayor’s office that includes recreational programs at night in city parks, intervention with preteen youth in neighborhoods with high gang membership, and appeals to former and current gang leaders to stop retaliatory violence. There’s…an experiment underway to offer…children of gang members a…college education if the kids stay out of gangs.
Since the news from Cleveland broke earlier this week, I have been thinking about Emma Donoghue’s novel “Room.” Published in the autumn of 2010, “Room” is narrated by a five-year-old boy named Jack who, along with his twenty-six-year-old mother—“Ma”—is imprisoned in a one-room structure by a man referred to only as Old Nick. Jack is the product of rape, but his mother strives to keep the truth of their situation from him, maintaining the illusion that their eleven-foot-by-eleven-foot prison is the extent of the real world…
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…is a political show trial designed to vilify Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama. What we don’t need is a crass partisan effort to influence the 2016 presidential campaign. Unlike the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal, there are no questions of illegal acts, no secret funds, no shredding of documents and no efforts to directly circumvent a law passed by Congress. People may forget that 14 administration officials were indicted and 11 convicted as a result of the arms-for-hostages scandal. Instead, what we have [re the Benghazi tragedy] after eight months of investigation, 11 congressional hearings before five committees, 20 staff briefings and 25,000 pages of documents is exactly what we started with: a tragic situation with lessons to be learned, but not a grand conspiracy.
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(1) What, in your view, was the crime?
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(2) Who failed competently to perform his or her job, in which concrete ways?
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(3) What information was covered up, and how? …
The website theydontworkforyou.org is designed to make you mad.
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Eleven year old Elsa Armindo Chela, is from Angola, she was picking mangoes with her cousin when she lost her eye to an anti-personnel land mine accident. Her cousin died. Kuito, Angola.
Photo credit: © Tim Grant.
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Eleven year old Elsa Armindo Chela, is from Angola, she was picking mangoes with her cousin when she lost her eye to an anti-personnel land mine accident. Her cousin died. Kuito, Angola.
Photo credit: © Tim Grant.
[look of the hour]
…the victims of homicide and suicide come from very different universes. Typically, most murder victims are young and black. Most suicides are older and…white.
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My chief lament about the decline of the local newspaper is that with each outlet that closes, opportunities to ferret out fraud and public waste and abuse are lost. Just as we and the FBI are adding resources to fight public corruption, if you run a newsroom, I would hope you would think of adding reporters and resources to the investigative side of the business. I bet it’s as fun a beat as a reporter can have. So all of you press folks back there, tell your editors I said that.
U.S. attorney for the Southern District, Preet Bharara
…who brought national attention to the “rampant” corruption in New York politics by announcing complaints against a number of local legislators and operatives.
Tyra for Yves Saint Laurent, s/s 1995
![…presented, with subtitles, in the African dialect of Sesotho—follows [main character] Mokoenya from the crime-riddled streets of Johannesburg, South Africa, to the homeland, Lesotho, from which he was plucked by his father as a young boy…
more. and more, plus a trailer, here.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/115b4ceed689ea0caaf29e87444c6e54/tumblr_mm3pm4stiY1qcwnv4o1_500.jpg)
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