"They don't see what we see, that it's a neurotoxin with serious side effects, that people die from overdoses and that some of the dances in the desert are no longer just dances, they're like violent crack houses set to music".
He grew up hard in a violent, crack-wracked neighborhood in the New York Borough of Queens, his drug-dealing mother murdered when he was 8.
The bid for independence came less than a decade after Serbian forces began a violent crack down on Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority.
Her leading man is strangely violent, once cracking a whip with an angry "Damn!", and vowing before Elizabeth that he'll settle matters with Lady Catherine.
Normally, Kylie is the sort of woman who'd decline to pour WKD on Sarah-Lou's sunbed if it were on fire, but with Callum getting violent she cracked him over the head with a monkey wrench.
(In yet-to-be-published research, Chumley is exploring the way that conflict extends to writers whose work is entirely consumed by a single subject, like biographers. "A lot of them use extremely violent metaphors about cracking somebody open or breaking into their inner selves or opening them up, tearing them apart," she said).
If this was an evocation of spring, it was no gentle pastoral, but a season of cracking ice, violent wind and burning sun.
In her latest solemnly perceptive mystery, THE INDIAN BRIDE (Harcourt, $23), Karin Fossum continues her exploration of the way violent crime can crack open the unwritten laws and social taboos of rural Norway.
Protests quickly turned violent as police cracked down on demonstrators, while opponents and Nkurunziza supporters clashed with each other in the streets.
What I would like is for the 31,500-strong Metroputithe Police to put the necessary resources into cracking down on violent youth-on-youth crime.
