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There are all-­Asian cliques from Flushing, all-­Asian cliques from Manhattan, all-­Asian cliques from Sunset Park in Brooklyn.
A winning team is a collection of harmonious cliques of various sizes, and a losing team is a collection of cliques who are variously suspicious that the behaviors of the other cliques may be detrimental to the team.
Previous investigations into the cliques have produced few results and, at times, have dismissed the cliques' existence with a "boys will be boys" attitude, he said.
In the past business life has been dominated by cliques.
They form cliques, shun rivals, and even dole out nicknames.
The study proves that gossip, cliques, and inner circles aren't bad.
There are these different cliques that form within the girl group.
They're stuck in their little cliques and they won't come out.
"Mean Girls" (2004) is a comedy about cliques in high school.
Our representatives should be leaning out of their cliques—not in.
Sometimes, they're just part of one of the many background cliques.
MS-13 operates in loose local cliques, sowing fear and violence.
They deconstruct cliques and dismantle echo chambers, as Craig puts it.
It's a milestone like any other, one that transcends generational cliques.
"In New York culture, people really stick to their cliques," Zumwalt continues.
They have fueled an online popularity contest that rivals middle school cliques.
A storm of messages flew among ascendants, descendants, and internal Latitude cliques.
And here we were hoping cliques ended when you graduated high school.
This was right after school, and all of the cliques were there.
" Recently, actress Chloë Moretz also came out against "squads," calling them "cliques.
There were cliques, and kids called each other preppy as a diss.
There are cliques, for sure, but it is a country of coexistence.
Efforts to unify cliques into a "national program" have fallen apart before.
Cliques and cool kids and math team and decorating for the school dance?
Like pretty much every high school, Belmont High had its cliques and hierarchies.
Sarcasm became a tool for a more multifaceted, individualized culture, separated into cliques.
Cliques, crushes, stuff on the internet I don't even want to think about.
It only takes Mean Girls about 10 minutes before it breaks down its cliques.
Beyond the factories, Russian politics is being conducted mostly among the Kremlin's power cliques.
He studied how to avoid depression (add more lights) and prevent cliques (rotate chores).
The deputy's statement and the sudden reemergence of the so-called cliques in the public eye have now prompted the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department to launch an inquiry, its first look into the existence of deputy cliques in more than six years.
And 34% of young people say they feel "isolation due to academic cliques" at work.
Traditionally, such moves were more subtle, and used between members of exclusive cliques or clubs.
Tony is a drifter, able to move between cliques but generally opting to fly solo.
Before, it was, "I'm into rock" or "I'm into reggae," and people had their cliques.
He deals with his new school and social cliques, all while planning his Bar Mitzvah.
Nine leaders of Suffolk County cliques, or factions of the gang, were arrested, Sini said.
Once well-organized operations built around drug dealing, they're now little more than dangerous cliques.
Conditions were ripe for what followed: Boys, with little supervision, money or education, formed cliques.
Q: Are you consciously working towards breaking into the cliques which are so prevalent in Bollywood?
In WeChat and Facebook cliques, headhunters and engineers from the diaspora exchange banter and animated gifs.
Between new teachers, harder subjects and quickly forming cliques, it's easy to feel like an outsider.
Earlier, the leaders of various groups and cliques within the prison tried to plan a coup.
When it comes to high school cliques/murder group projects, you can't go wrong with Jawbreaker.
Cliques perpetuated by Facebook's algorithms that provide a steady stream of news to match their interests.
Since the police broke the large gangs, hundreds of tiny cliques—police estimate 625—have risen.
For starters, there appeared to be cliques, with a grimacing Mr. Trump often on the outs.
While cliques and social isolation can cause significant health concerns, they are not entirely the problem.
They're cliques!" she told Complex for its April/May cover story, with a tone described as "exasperation.
My high school had cliques: the black girls and white girls, the Filipino and the Latina girls.
In an industry of elite cliques and hierarchies, few can truly advocate for radical change from within.
After her death, arbitrary cliques and clichés matter less than the ubiquitous loss haunting the student body.
The cliques quickly turn to violence after a petty spat, or to assert status on the street.
Locked in the library, they learn that despite their high school cliques, they're more alike than different.
Such cliques and groups turned up in detailed answers to questions about Facebook users' relations with others.
Everyone has been reliving their high school-era anxieties of lunchroom cliques from this latest Twitter meme.
It's what reels young listeners in, making them wish they were down with their favorite artist's cliques.
There are certainly different cliques around St. David's, but I wouldn't say there are rivalries or anything.
Crushes, concerts, detention, gossip, and cliques dominate its characters' lives — as is the norm for many teens.
He sees things in terms of cults, cliques, inner circles, smart sets — a kind of outsider resentment.
He studied how to avoid depression (add more lights), prevent cliques (rotate chores), and simulate life aboveground.
On Tuesday, your glamorous planetary ruler Venus faces off with illusive Neptune, creating disillusionment with social cliques.
Everyone under the age of 18 has settled into their former high school cliques like cheerleaders and gamers.
She wants them to know that their value resides well beyond the social boundaries of high school cliques.
They start with activities designed to get students to break out of their cliques and make new friends.
"My high school had cliques: the black girls and white girls," Markle wrote on her blog in 2014.
In their absence, the party got bigger and weirder, and ominous cliques started to gather in the corners.
It's been a way for them to make new friends across all different groups and cliques on campus.
Leaders in El Salvador run the gang by issuing orders to the local cliques here in Suffolk County.
Despite the cliques, the regulars called each other by name and went to the management to resolve disputes.
Again, it was found that the culture of the cliques played a central role in encouraging violence against inmates.
From the girls of The Craft to the queen bee in Jawbreaker, these people are creating truly terrifying cliques.
Cops formed cliques with city commissioners, who brazenly interfered with open investigations involving their cronies, the grand jury found.
But unlike some of the famous cliques of today, Campbell feels no reason to define her group of supes.
They communicate in brands that the rest of us have never heard of, and over time, cliques have formed.
It also believes that these leaders have been sending emissaries into the US illegally to connect with local cliques.
KRISTIN CORRY: I loved seeing the "first ladies" of rap cliques, and I searched for myself in my favorites.
Other worldly characters of divisive intention in cliques, all with dead yet somehow aphrodisiacal eyes, swapping partners for pleasure.
As in Russia, power in all five countries rests with small, now obscenely wealthy, cliques close to the president.
He was able to break up a lot of the cliques that I think lay behind the acid attack.
As I've observed before, management should want to take action if cliques are undermining the enterprise in concrete ways.
This is evidenced by the monotony of child-rearing chores, demoralizing social cliques and career pressures they must endure.
Informal cliques known as "boost groups" have emerged, allowing users to trade likes and comments with one another to try.
The mean girl clique's formal name — because let's face it, most mean girl cliques have one — is the Weird Sisters.
There were cliques, and people hated each other, and so-and-so wouldn't dream of talking to so-and-so.
In an industry run by camps and cliques, Mr Khan made it clear that he was a writer for hire.
The arrests included MS-13 members from nine separate cliques in Suffolk County, ranging in age from 16 to 59.
It also incorporates the permanently-disgruntled leftists who are mostly holdovers from the radical cliques of the 1960s and 85033s.
" On the other hand, he notes, "the 'a' stands apart from those tight cliques with a collection of one-off shapes.
Investor behavior on AngelList is more similar to teenage girls forming cliques than the sage wisdom and objectivity of Warren Buffet.
The gang's "cliques," or branches, in the US have mainly been involved in local-level crime — extortion, drug dealing, and theft.
Many of the deputy cliques share common features: hierarchical structures, intensive recruitment, hazing of younger officers, and a resistance to outsiders.
It's true: The cliques that we were part of in our formative years are a veritable feast of Halloween costume inspiration.
"You're dealing with politics, conflicts of interest, cliques, a predictable attitude, but also staggering exaggerations of conservatism and puritanism," he continued.
If there were a music industry boys' club of cliques and record companies, then Simz was not part of the pack.
The Algerians and Sudanese have emerged from civil wars to find themselves still beholden to opaque and predatory army-backed cliques.
It's amazing to see how the contestants interact with each other, the different character types and politics and cliques that form.
Either way, this will be a critical time around a turning point for the cliques, groups, and associations you belong to.
As Josh looks for his MIA girlfriend Sam (Sophie Simnett) he must contend with the worst versions of high school cliques.
The first is organizational: MS-13 cliques in different areas are less like branches of the same organization than like franchises.
" Joe: "Yes, I think there were cliques, but ... It's just more groups of friends that met in junior high and stayed friends.
And some cliques, like groups called the "2000 Boys" and "3000 Boys," have been known to operate out of the county jail.
Others pay up to four (the two factions of Barrio 18, which has split, and two autonomous "cliques" of the Mara Salvatrucha).
He found a complex mosaic, composed of vibrant local community activities, pockets of genuine despair and accumulated frustrations, and cliques of troublemakers.
Cliques were formed, but I also am really close to a bunch of people I met through that email list still today.
Some folks are content to work within their cliques—never really branching out, or even expressing interest or curiosity beyond this periphery.
Across the nation, small cliques of soil microbiologists, plant geneticists, and seasoned farmers are applying their expertise to the cultivation of marijuana.
Outlets now abound for women — especially younger, newer employees — who might be left out of tightly guarded cliques of trust at work.
It's full of in-jokes and cliques and factions and a small number of people who are too loud and too rude.
Five teenagers from different cliques ("a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal") bond during enforced Saturday detention.
Deputy cliques have surfaced during some of the most troubling times for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department since at least the 210s.
Instead, she is navigating the complex inner-workings of being a teenager in a place like Liberty High, with its bullies and cliques.
He casts Spring Awakening with kids from a variety of cliques (a football star and aspiring rapper acts alongside the football coach's daughter).
There were still cliques and they mostly revolved around sports because that was the school's focus—I wasn't the athletic type at all.
Cliques formed at Sykes based on where employees had lived before returning to El Salvador—the West Coast, Texas, the tri-state area.
This was that special stage in elementary school life before classmates split off into designated cliques and instead are defined by what they read.
"Defenders say the cliques are harmless fraternities, likening them to close-knit groups in the military," the LA Times noted in a July article.
These are "informal alliances that pass on open secrets and warn women away from serial assaulters," warnings that circulate privately among tightly knit cliques.
In the 1980s there were online discussion communities called Usenet newsgroups where hoaxes would be shared among cliques of conspiracy theorists and sensation-mongers.
Writing about children — particularly children who are on the fringes of typical high school cliques — is one of the things Stephen King does best.
Or make an effort to work with her directly on some project — which is a decent tactic for responding to office cliques in general.
Dozens, scores, cliques and claques of elephants, ears flapping like flags, trunks slowly swinging, and many of their faces decidedly free of ivory eruptions.
The show falls into the genre of entertainment aimed at adolescents that depicts a mix of partying, cliques, sex, sexual violence and self-harm.
In 2012, a mini-war erupted between members of G-ville and Killa Ward, two cliques that had staked out territory near the church.
His story could be a critical scene in a coming-of-age movie starring the outsider drifting between high school cliques—the cool kids, a.k.a.
Cafeteria lunchroom cliques have spilled over into neighborhood clans, from the popular "Disciples of Kardashia" to the nerdy "STEM Punks" in full Steve Jobs cosplay.
The actions of the different groups have led critics to argue that the LASD is not doing enough to stop the activity of deputy cliques.
Mr Hernández has built new maximum-security jails that keep phones away from gang leaders, who are used to running their "cliques" from their cells.
Since big, hierarchical gangs fragmented into hundreds of tiny "cliques" of hot-headed and heavily armed youngsters, the city's murder rate has been stubbornly high.
The new Netflix show tells the story of three high school girls who come from different social cliques, but bond after a Shopper's Anonymous meeting.
In the drizzle outside the Cambridge Union a student in a roll-neck is trying to hand anti-EU leaflets to the cliques hurrying past.
There were so many cliques there, and people who seemed almost in love with the area—who didn't really want to share it with others.
Head-nodding beat producers pack sweaty warehouses, disco rears its head at more queer functions, and a vogue crew from San Antonio boomerangs between cliques.
With laser focus, Sam's group preys on Juliet (Elena Kampouris), the bushy-haired artist who's been the butt of the cliques' jokes since elementary school.
These Bachelor cliques are formed from the same miracle glue that bonded Catniss to Roo in The Hunger Games: friendship despite survival of the fittest.
The authorities say the gang has been in Suffolk County since around 1998 and is organized in cliques bearing names like the Brentwood Locos Salvatruchas.
He came back with images that capture timeless rituals — the mad dash between classes, lunchtime cliques, yearbook signings, the prom, dissections in the science lab.
As for male bonobos, they may be subordinate themselves to females in cliques, and they may have no interest in hanging out with the guys.
Law enforcement "effectively decimated" the DC-area MS-13, as the Washington Post wrote in 2017, and rendered the Boston-area cliques dormant for years.
"Back in 2014 right wing blogs on Tumblr were more or less divided into two cliques," he tells me, explaining the Tumblr right and its subcategories.
Winning players from Spain and Germany have described the importance of breaking down club-based cliques and dropping stars who do not fit the team's tactics.
And like any teenage girl, the first thing Cameron does is figure out where she fits in — turns out gay conversion camp isn't immune to cliques.
Because you are the sign of friendship, dealing with cliques and clubs triggers you in a way that the other signs may not understand or appreciate.
According to psychology academics, clique formation is actually not unique to our high school experiences — the existences of Twitter cliques boils down to our human nature.
Gangs and cliques are often territorial, so terms such as endz, bitz, yard meaning neighborhood, or road and roadboy, someone accepted as local, are especially important.
This year's edition includes a more sophisticated view of team psychology—it requires you to cozy up to influential leaders or to gently break up cliques.
The gang is made up of sometimes competing cliques, often led by teenagers most interested in wielding power over other young people in their immediate circles.
Global Times, a nationalistic Chinese publication, warned on Monday that "political cliques" in the United States that were seeking to overthrow the Cuban government still existed.
Dash soon finds himself joining forces with the popular girl and a grizzled but resourceful lunch lady to avoid not just sharks but suddenly deadly cliques.
Those cliques, in the suburbs of DC and Boston and on Long Island, started garnering attention for themselves in the mid-2000s with their gruesome executions.
Although nightlife cliques can all be very different there is some crossover in crowds, tastes, venues, and artists due to the social media sites that connect them.
"Neither of us wanted to play the social games that you needed to play to be accepted into any of the numerous cliques," Fernandez says of Jobs.
From Clueless to The Craft, street stylers have paid homage to pop culture cliques and cadres for a hot minute now (whether they mean to or not).
Separating into cliques and cabals was not the problem; in fact, it was probably what kept the community alive and working for as long as it did.
He attributed the farmers' grievances, even those caused by ineluctable market forces, to machinating cliques, rather as Mr Trump claimed globalisation could be reversed by squeezing bosses.
Critics of officer groups like the Banditos argue that the group builds off a decades-long phenomenon of bad behavior within officer cliques in Los Angeles County.
This anything-goes attitude had an effect on the atmosphere in which Catholic priests were trained, and "in various seminaries homosexual cliques were established," according to Benedict.
Some are also apparently swayed to the cause by close relatives or trusted community members, yielding clusters and cliques of varied size and intensity across the nation.
When the building's power starts to fail, and the cliques on various floors ossify into gangs, open warfare abruptly breaks out, and Laing has to choose sides.
From families, cliques and silly meme sharing, to hobby clubs, protest organizers and professional discussion places, Groups have blossomed into a major part of the Facebook experience.
Both center on allegations that secretive millionaires weaponized their philanthropic giving, cliques of connected friends, and private island paradises to prey on young victims and escape justice.
Corea Diaz reported to gang leaders in El Salvador, who received the gang's profits and directed cliques in El Salvador and the United States, the indictment said.
ANONYMOUS Workplace cliques are common, but it's definitely not a smart move for bosses to participate in them — let alone allow group scuttlebutt to guide their decisions.
Many of the cliques try to hide the existence of the tattoos, he said, and their placement on the body is specifically picked so they aren't easily viewed.
Meanwhile, McDonnell, who is running for reelection as sheriff this year, has said an inquiry into the possible existence of new cliques has been underway for some time.
So the existence of "homosexual cliques" in seminaries is off the point for anyone who is trying to understand the root causes of sexual violence against the young.
People began to wander in, cliques began to designate their homebases at each of the tables, then an MC came out to try and galvanize everyone in proximity.
Mr. Xi and Mr. Wang see corruption as a symptom of a breakdown of control in the party that also spawned disloyal cliques, resistance to policies and disillusionment.
The board and executive team needs to dig deeper into the culture to root out the cliques and culture that allowed this to carry on for so long.
Instead, I discovered a bottomless pit of mommy-shaming and weird niche parenting cliques that seemed aimed at making women feel that whatever they were doing wasn't enough.
As the league turns into a bunch of cliques, Westbrook has decided to maroon himself on an island, bringing just Victor Oladipo and Steven Adams along with him.
What that means has become increasingly fuzzy, as the large, well-organized operations built around drug dealing have splintered, and are now little more than cliques or sets.
As an adult who loves a good high school clique origin story, Deadly Class's metaphor that cliques are necessary for high school survival is something I'm down for.
Successful prosecutions in the 1990s of gang bosses, who kept street soldiers in check, left power vacuums filled by small cliques led by younger people eager to break away.
The whiteness of "Girls" — those cliques exist — is less of a problem when you also have "Survivor's Remorse" and "Being Mary Jane" and FX's coming "Atlanta" with Donald Glover.
The new lawsuit seeks to have the department take additional actions to address the deputy cliques in the hope that it will prompt an overhaul of the entire system.
I'd had a hard time making friends that year as everyone else seemed to have their cliques figured out, and they weren't in a hurry to add someone new.
There are mean cliques and pregnancy scares and all the other problems that are all too often lacking in magical schools, giving it a familiar framework to relate to.
Benedict's newly-published essay, blaming the surging sex-abuse crisis on the swinging sixties and "homosexual cliques" in seminaries, was his most blatant intervention since stepping down in 2013.
Others seem to be communicating with pro-ISIS cliques, but focusing their attention outside of Iraq and Syria, pointing to both longevity and diversity in the German jihadi space.
The cliques: Popular players: The telecom companies, like Dish, Comcast, Charter and AT&T, are creating their own skinny bundles, but offering niche packages as add-on standalone services.
If high school-based movies taught me anything about cliques, it's that a soccer player and a girl in a monkey suit would never be friends in real life.
Unfortunately, in ways that should embarrass some of those adults today who serve in Congress, life in Washington operates along many of the same rules as those adolescent cliques.
Hailee Steinfeld stars as Nadine, a high school junior whose life is torn apart when her best friend begins dating Nadine's popular older brother and seemingly switches cliques overnight.
With sensitivity and a deep connection to the girls, Beam describes their struggles with transitioning and how they reconcile them with more familiar teenage concerns like crushes and cliques.
Fashion may be a sprawling global industry but in many ways it can feel a lot like a high school, with its own cliques, pecking order, hangouts — and cafeteria.
It was under the Metalheadz banner that the movement sailed; a dark, bizarre, biting, trance-like slip-stream within which Britain's pre-millennial cultures and cliques found common ground.
While at first it may seem like your typical high school comedy—complete with awkward teen romances and high-powered cliques—the reality of the narrative is much more complex.
In a viral spoken word poem about being a girl, 13-year-old Olivia Vella poignantly describes many of these tough aspects of girlhood, from cliques to sexist beauty standards.
Let go of the baggage that's haunting you from any old cliques you belonged to and consider joining a new group or club that shares your hobbies, hopes, or goals.
Avoid work "cliques," (you'll know them when you see them), and don't stress out about being one of the "cool kids" who effectively sit together at the career lunch table.
Economic "growth" is limited to a pitiful rebound after 17 percent slump in 2014-2015, while reforms are blocked by the fruitless struggle between powerful cliques of oligarchs and politicians.
"In various seminaries homosexual cliques were established, which acted more or less openly and significantly changed the climate in the seminaries," he wrote, adding that the situation has now improved.
Yes, you have popular girl cliques and the social politics that play out in the lunchroom, but finding people who you have things in common with is a relatively simple process.
The party's graft-busting Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said Sun "seriously contravened political discipline and rules, spoke inappropriately about key party policies, formed cliques and obstructed the investigation into him".
He said that the ramen currency had been noted in prisons regardless as to whether or not tobacco was forbidden, and that it transcended prisoner security levels, cliques and racial groups.
Rihanna – full name Robyn Rihanna Fenty – said her latest designs were inspired by school cliques such as nerds, jocks and skaters, and presented the collection at the Bibliothèque National de France.
It has practically no rules or policies and operates more like other American Hispanic street gangs with "cliques" claiming and protecting small barrios and cities, all the way to regional turfs.
The gang is organized into several sub-groups, or cliques, each of which reports to gang leaders in El Salvador and sends them proceeds from their drug sales, the prosecutors said.
You have cliques such as the "Big Criers" at table 2, the "Laugh Through The Pain" table at 4, and "Your Parents Have No Idea Who Those People Are" table 5.
Without naming individuals, he said some officials cared only about forming their own cliques to advance their careers - something the party has long railed against as a root cause of corruption.
But officials said that the case revealed on Friday was the biggest crackdown ever on the group in New York, and had dealt its local cells, or cliques, a significant blow.
If race showed in class lines, school cliques and being pulled over more often, our little Americana lacked the deep racial tension and mistrust that seem so hard to escape now.
During this time, China was split into competing military cliques and was only nominally unified in 1928 by the Chinese Nationalist Party, after more than a decade of political maneuvering and warfare.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's President Xi Jinping condemned "cliques", "conspiracies" and "fraud" within upper echelons of the Communist Party and said there were urgent problems to be addressed, state media reported on Wednesday.
You're the sign of friendship, Aquarius, and while Venus is in lucky, abundant Sagittarius, you'll definitely feel in your element, schmoozing up a storm with people in many different cliques and scenes.
The next day, April 18, power planet Pluto stations retrograde in Capricorn, which means you'll begin reflecting on the dynamics in your friend groups, organizations, communities, and cliques in a new way.
If they start splitting publicly on specific provisions, or moving off into public cliques for or against specific issues, that would signal a more serious problem than is thought to currently exist.
The results combine the rankings of professional judges from each competing country — who often vote in regional or linguistic cliques — and of the world audience's vote via phone, text or Eurovision app.
The baby-faced new arrivals may come face-to-face with tattooed mobsters known as the vory-v-zakone ('thieves-in-law'), or smaller cliques including murderous neo-Nazis and militant jihadis.
The suspected crimes ranged from "forming cliques and factions" and opposing investigation to transferring criminal proceeds, destroying evidence, abusing his power and having improper sexual relations, the watchdog said in its statement.
During the deposition, Aldama also said he had "ill feelings" about black people, which Sweeney said is a factor in many of the deputy cliques that have existed in the LA sheriff's department.
Master Lin (Benedict Wong from Doctor Strange) is in charge of Kings Dominion, the textbooks are things like Faces of Death and The Anarchist Cookbook, and the school is divided into vicious cliques.
When Jacques Chirac stood for re-election in 2002, he brought rival cliques from the centre and the right together under a broad umbrella, originally named the Union for a Presidential Majority (UMP).
Elliott's challenge to South Korea's second-biggest family-run conglomerate is the latest example of shareholder activism in Asia's fourth-biggest economy, long dominated by powerful cliques that took minority investors for granted.
Platforms like Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram either bring people together in novel and fun ways, or they breed narcissism and become a hunting ground for cliques and bullies to prey on vulnerable kids.
Nearly every former employee also recounted how this select group of higher-ups cultivated a Mean Girls environment of cliques, fear, and intimidation that permeated the workplace and repressed people from speaking out.
There were the usual cliques and hierarchies, but because it was a Catholic school, the focus was on being a good citizen of the community and using your talents for a higher purpose.
Review: 'Mean Girls' Sets the Perils of Being Popular to Song Tina Fey's adaptation of her 2004 screenplay about high school cliques comes to Broadway with wit, fetch and a surplus of songs.
Given the specifics of the Russian vertical political system, with competing power cliques, the idea of spreading influence via online troll farms allegedly was sold to the higher authorities by one such group.
You need to avoid embarrassment and, wherever possible, make the new place—those new places, those new offices, those unbreakable cliques and impenetrable office in-jokes you need to navigate—know you're there.
"Any time they pop the [cell] doors you've got to be ready, because you've got the Aryan Brotherhood, the Mexican Mafia — all these different cliques you're dealing with on a daily basis," he said.
The internet has turned politics into cliques that mimic a lot of high school dynamics: Each clique comes with its own lingo, its own way of celebrating its heroes or putting down its opponents.
Kristen Bell and Kathryn Hahn's characters give a summary in the movie of the different cliques that the school consists of: the juicing moms, the lesbian moms, the black moms, the black lesbian moms.
The brighter the line, the stronger the connection: You'll notice that countries tend to cluster in little cliques (where a lot of blue lines overlap), confirming the theory that certain countries vote in blocs.
On these nights, all the cliques would mingle: the skater boys, the pretty girls, the boys who threw up gang signs and wore baggy pants and poured their parents' rum into 7-Eleven slurpees.
Rivalries between Chicago's increasingly splintered gangs and cliques over sales of heroin, Ecstasy, prescription drugs and marijuana have given way to gunfire — even among small-time sellers who see themselves as only peripherally involved.
Mr. Trump and Congress must strengthen those efforts and help them become a regional campaign to rein in rule by criminal cliques and murderous gangs that make daily life intolerable for the average citizen.
They were, he concluded, a psychopath and a depressive, and should be viewed through the lens of mental illness, and not school cliques and revenge — a point he's repeated about many school shooters since.
"Especially an extremely small minority of people among high-level cadres have swelling political ambitions, crave power, pay lip service, form cliques and gangs, and seek power and position and other political conspiracies," Xi said.
There are roughly 213 million undocumented immigrants in the US. The Department of Justice says it has found in recent investigations that gang leaders in El Salvador are directing US cliques to become more violent.
At its best, Stranger Things 2 nails the specific social dynamics of adolescence – the tension over who's in and who's not, the petty rivalries and dangerous crushes that threaten to tear apart relationships and cliques.
" After the summit, the Pangoal Institution, a Beijing think tank, published an analysis of the Trump Administration, describing it as a den of warring "cliques," the most influential of which was the "Trump family clan.
The ceaseless West Wing backbiting that captures headlines has belied the reality of working there, which is that aides form tight cliques and burrow into those friendships to endure the chaos of the work environment.
The trailer for the new "Heathers" TV series has dropped, and this time around the group is more inclusive of other races and genders, but there is still that viciousness familiar to high school cliques.
It developed in the Latino immigrant-heavy towns of Suffolk County — Brentwood and Central Islip — around 1998, and over the past two decades has been organized in cliques bearing names like the Brentwood Locos Salvatruchas.
There are those who want to belong to clubs and acquire the proper affiliations, and there are others who don't or can't belong to anything of the sort, even the cliques that would gladly welcome them.
When the department has faced allegations of racist policing tactics, violence in the jails, or corruption at the top of its administration, deputy cliques have repeatedly emerged as having played a key role in the scandals.
Like any good teen drama, All American — which is based on the life of real athlete Spencer Paysinger — has oodles of love triangles, tensions between cliques, and sizzling sexual tension between will-they-won't-they characters.
Different cliques are definitely in communication, and members sometimes flee to another clique in another city after committing a crime to evade law enforcement, but that's just street-gang-level stuff on a bigger geographic scale.
It follows the rivalry between two fictional cliques, the House of Abundance and the House of Evangelista, as they dress up and strut the runway at competitions hosted by the hilariously acid-tongued Pray Tell (Billy Porter).
Federal and local authorities have said that MS-13 has a presence in Queens, but is not as active as it is on Long Island, where cliques formed in the late 1990s in Central American immigrant communities.
"Mean Girls" — the 20043 film that starred Lindsay Lohan as Cady, a new student who tries to navigate the cliques of North Shore High — has become one of the most quotable films, generating endless GIFs and memes.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Former Pope Benedict has blamed the Catholic Church's sexual abuse scandal on the effects of the sexual revolution of the 1960s, homosexual cliques in seminaries and what he called a general collapse in morality.
"Neither of us wanted to play the social games that you needed to play to be accepted into any of the numerous cliques," Fernandez tells Y Combinator in a series of interviews with early employees at tech companies.
In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that many of the oligarchs who made their riches amid the downfall of the Soviet Union have protected their fortunes by advancing the interests of the ruling cliques at home.
As a part of a program called Mi Amigo, English- and Spanish-speaking players were paired up and sent out to dinner in an effort to break down cultural barriers and combat language-based cliques in the clubhouse.
Then, on the fourth chime of the bells at Basel's oldest church, all the lights of the city are turned off, and costumed marching bands called "cliques" fire up a tune to signal the start of Basel's Fasnacht.
During our adolescent years, our bedrooms (or personal corners of shared bedrooms, for those of us who bunked with siblings), were our sanctuary — a much-needed escape from pressures like parents, homework, middle school cliques, and youth sports leagues.
Half of the Democratic caucusgoers preferred the nonconformist senator from Vermont over the tried and tested Clinton; two-thirds of the Republicans gave their votes to Cruz and other candidates who are estranged from G.O.P. cliques, elites and benefactors.
On anyone else, this might look like the air of an accomplished diplomat who's figured out how to appease all the various cliques — but in Ivanka Trump's case, it's simply left most women unsure what to make of her.
I always had friends at my old school, but I never felt popular in a world of cliques and varying degrees of cool—so in choosing my new place of study, I only considered one thing: its academic reputation.
In Italy, those who call themselves feminists treat what is supposed to be a fundamental component of one's worldview as a sort of battle between high-school cliques: I will fight for your rights — as long as we're friends.
Its heroine, Luce, is a self-possessed 17-year-old making her way through the jungle of a new school, navigating unfriendly cliques and obsessing over glowering boys even as a supernatural shadow threatens her safety and her sanity.
Slack is many things: an engine for collaboration and a distraction machine; a community-builder for an office and a facsimile of high school cliques; a service to streamline work and to blur the lines of your work/life balance.
And of course, British politics is also now dominated by an "old boys' network": the cliques of Etonions and Bullingdon club members, personified by the prime minister, David Cameron, the chancellor, George Osborne—and indeed London's outgoing mayor, Boris Johnson.
Because we simply cannot trust the social networks, or any centralized commercial platform, with these cliques and crews most vital to our lives, these bands of fellow-travelers who are—who must be—the first to hear about all good things.
Speaking at a separate event, Attorney General Douglas Melendez said that gang members who have recently been deported from the United States have created new "cliques" named after U.S. cities and are sharing information with counterparts still in the United States.
As strange as it seems at first glance, this kind of bill caters for who we are these days: we're less tribal in our tastes and cliques, and more likely to throw down to Justice one minute and Devendra the next.
Instead of sixty long-standing gangs—some of which were run like corporations, with their own clothing lines and political-action committees—Chicago now had hundreds of "cliques," with as few as a dozen members in control of several square blocks.
The gang is broken into local cells called "cliques" – or "clicas" in Spanish – that are more loyal to each other than to the various leadership councils that operate around Central America and the U.S. Put simply, it has no leader.
But cults of personality are actually the norm in the "stans," the Central Asian countries that emerged after the fall of the Soviet Union, all of which are ruled by strongmen who surround themselves with tiny cliques of wealthy crony capitalists.
But her boast that she could never be found "drinking in parliament's bars" may come to haunt her - having not been part of one of the Conservative cliques, she is very much alone as others in the party plot their routes to power.
In any given episode of The Real Housewives of Orange County, you'll find the ladies meeting up in fancy boutiques to hash out the latest drama brewing between their cliques — while simultaneously dropping major dough at the counter without batting an eye.
This isn't only a beneficent time in your relationships, but in your whole community—it's a great opportunity to connect with clubs, groups, and cliques that you're inspired to be a part of, whether it's for a hobby or a social/political cause.
Perplexed by the mind games and unspoken rules of high school, she mingles with two opposing cliques and, under a mischievous plot, joins the "Plastics" — a group of narcissistic, beauty-obsessed queens led by the most wicked girl in school (Rachel McAdams).
"Uber's outsize success in terms of growth of market share, revenues and valuation are impressive, but can never excuse a culture plagued by disrespect, exclusionary cliques, lack of diversity, and tolerance for bullying and harassment of every form," the Kapors wrote in an online letter.
Before the event, on the sidewalks outside, it felt more like a lunchtime construction site than a political affair: over pizza and cigarettes, the guys spent the remaining hours of their workday seemingly shooting the shit with one another, gathering with their respective cliques.
In addition to the nerve-wracking aspects of middle school or high school — crushes, grades, cliques — students today are grappling with intense experiences, including natural disaster anniversaries, school shooting drills, and heightened political and social tensions that disproportionately affect young immigrants and LGBTQ people.
"The gay community is much like high school, in that it consists of various cliques that seldom interact with one another—in this case, it'd be white and whitewashed gays being the popular, in-crowd, while I'm hanging out with the other Asians," argued Alex.
The corrupt, undemocratic and faction-riven South Vietnamese government — both under President Ngo Dinh Diem, who was assassinated in a 1963 coup, and under the military cliques that followed him — proved incapable of providing its people and armed forces a cause worth fighting for.
The US may have exported MS-13 to El Salvador, but, according to most experts, it was Salvadoran MS-13 members who eventually founded cliques on the East Coast of the US (though some think MS-13 spread to the East Coast from California).
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A modern nation following the democratic path, Weber argued, had two options: rule by bureaucrats and parliamentary cliques acting from self-interest and "living from" politics; or a "leadership democracy" in which a charismatic leader, "living for" politics, commands a party machine that can mobilise voters.
In one case, the suspected leader of one the largest MS-13 cliques in Maryland recently canceled a drug deal because he did not have enough money to pay for gas to drive to the drop-off point, according to a law enforcement official in the state.
He made it a priority to restore what he called "good order and discipline" after a series of scandals, tightening grooming standards and banning unofficial patches with pirate flags, skulls, heads on pikes and other grim symbols used to denote rogue cliques, similar to motorcycle gangs.
Deborah Brown, an artist and the owner of Storefront Ten Eyck, reminded me that BOS, in its earliest incarnations, was produced by community activists and artists who saw utopian possibilities for artists to reject the art cliques of Manhattan's elites and create a less hierarchical alternative.
The 2012 report found that the two groups used Roman numeral tattoos on their calves to identify membership in the cliques, and that by the time the investigation was conducted, the groups' influence and insubordination had grown to such levels that efforts to stamp them out had failed miserably.
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Pretty standard stuff, but I remember feeling defeated by the whole thing — fewer people came than I hoped for, and everyone ultimately withdrew to the cliques they had arrived in, and I felt like I spent the entire time trying to get strangers to talk to one another.
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The eight modern-day cliques ahead (think 2016's version of the Mean Girls lunchroom) are less geographically defined than ever before: They connect around wearing whatever they like, however they like it, whether it's wacky Vetements hoodies that have them looking like space aliens or boatloads of Ivy Park merch.
The Mara gangs, who use murder as a tool to elevate their status within cliques and to shake down businesses, are strangling the local economy, a key factor driving the large-scale emigration of Central Americans to the United States, especially teenagers, whom the gangs target as both victims and recruits.
While some things about high school never change (there are still bells, right?), it's a good bet that Grace Victoria Cox's present-day version of Veronica Sawyer (the teenager originally played by Winona Ryder) will have her work cut out for her in the iPhone-enhanced world of contemporary teenage cliques.
Top brass at the department have pledged for years to address and stamp out the problem, but the possibility that gang-like cliques of deputies still exist inside the department has resurfaced around a recent wrongful death lawsuit over the shooting of a black man in Compton by two deputies in 22012.
But in California, critics of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department have been faced with a unique version of the issue: the existence of what have been called "deputy gangs" — cliques of officers who allegedly engage in violent and potentially criminal behavior while protecting their members and clashing with other law enforcement officers.
The best-looking kids you never went to school with—Brandon, Brenda, Kelly, Dylan, Andrea, Steve, David and Donna—telling emotionally authentic stories of the challenges teens face everywhere: being in and out of popular cliques, experiencing exhilarating first loves and crushing breakups, suffering embarrassing parents and their occasional brushes with the law.
The case prompted the department to conduct its own review in 1992, known as the Kolts Report, which found deputy cliques had adopted behavior identical to that of street gangs, including using gang symbols with their hands, graffitiing the community with the substation number and the Vikings' name, and inking themselves with identifying tattoos.
"We'd spent hours and hours of our lives having quasi-intelligent discussions about the weird little internet cliques around us, how people were interacting with each other, or how certain men on Twitter were really transparently running their accounts like some sort of weird lure to attract women to have sex with..." Zitron said.
But having studied the phenomenon—known in the academic community as internet- or cyber-banging—I can tell you that the frequency with which young people use platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to hurl insults, taunt enemies, and brag about violent acts is playing a meaningful role in fueling retaliatory efforts between gangs and cliques in marginalized neighborhoods.
The decade in question was the 1980s, a time in New York of big hair, pouf dresses, outsize personalities and a small social compass, when influencers were a concept far in the future and the democratizing dimensions of online existence were yet unimagined in a city still dominated by real-time encounters and class-based tribal cliques.
The present White House may be uncomfortably reminiscent of a medieval court, with its cliques and coerced displays of fealty, all taking place under the watchful gaze of a ruling family—as cabinet members cringed this week, an impassive Jared Kushner, Mr Trump's son-in-law and senior counsellor, could be seen monitoring their tributes from a seat behind the president.
As narco rap began in the region, so did the violence — the Mexican government claims that between 2010 and 2016, more than 4,900 people were murdered in Tamaulipas and the state led the nation in the number of people disappeared as the Gulf Cartel fractured into various warring cliques, as well as fought off its hyper-violent offspring nemesis, the Zetas.
Members of the Trump administration have compared the gang to Colombian or Italian mafias, and while MS-20163 cliques have been linked to Mexican transnational drug cartels — working with the Sinaloa, Gulf, and Zetas cartels, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration — the gang's actual involvement in the drug trade appears to be limited, in some cases just to local markets.
"One of the biggest problems we face today is that the media has devolved into red and blue teams who, for the most part, only care about clicks, cliques, and scoring points for their side," he told BuzzFeed News, adding that he feels the left derves a lot of blame for unfair portrayals of Mitt Romney and George W. Bush.
At the end of the day, the cliques and social dynamics of a workplace are a product of company culture; if you're working for a business that often makes personnel decisions on a personal basis, but you'd rather work for a company that bases important choices on performance alone, then you're dealing with a disconnect that probably won't ever be resolved.
The views expressed here are her own, She is the author of "Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and the New Realities of Girl World" -- the best-selling book that was the basis for the movie "Mean Girls" -- and "Owning Up: Empowering Adolescents to Confront Social Cruelty, Bullying, and Injustice," a new curriculum for middle and high school students.
Since news spread of Mr. Melendez's death on May 28 at 64, after a long illness and a heart attack, his wife has been overwhelmed by an outpouring of love for a man whose political awakening — not to mention his charisma, optimism and musical skills — transformed young lives and helped break the cycle of violence among warring cliques when he brokered a historic truce in 1971.
When a controversial piece of such dubious authenticity is sold at prices no museum can afford, making it available only to the increasingly indistinguishable cliques of oligarchs and their head-of-state business pals, it contributes to a market where expertise and devotion to art are dispensed with; the final word on what's a Leonardo and what isn't goes to the highest bidder, not the most knowledgeable or most dedicated scholar.
It soon becomes clear that the answers to each season's mysteries, despite being what drive you to watch multiple episodes at a time, aren't quite the point — the documentary-style look at the characters' lives is the point, with the way it shines a light on the different cliques and codes of high school in a way that ultimately (and humorously) illuminates the pressures of a modern teenage social life.
After I went to college and married and had a family, I would wistfully watch John Hughes movies or shows like "Freaks and Geeks" and dearly wish that I had gone to a normal high school, with sports and debate clubs and junior proms — and valedictorians and salutatorians, homerooms and cliques, funny men in the back row, announcements on the loudspeaker, shouts in the halls, bake sales, lockers.
These are encouraging steps, but much more is needed: not only the kind of spiritual renewal that Pope Francis demands but also the kind of systematic change that can safeguard children and vulnerable adults, restore some credibility to the institutional church and begin to dismantle the culture of clericalism — the spiritual elitism of holier-than-thou cliques who cover for one another as they try to run the church.
In the county's 203 "Report of the Citizens' Commission on Jail Violence," it was found two of the toughest floors of the Men's County Jail were home to the "2000 Boys" and the "3000 Boys" — deputy cliques that were found to encourage violence from deputies toward inmates, were insubordinate to supervisors, and used violence as a way to "earn ink," allowing deputies to get tattoos identifying themselves as members of the clique.
Whether that's how his father was a big deal real estate developer in Queens but not Manhattan, or that Trump himself wasn't accepted into the clubs and cliques of Manhattan wealth as a young rich guy, or that the political class laughed at him when he came to Washington thinking about entering politics in 2011, the prime motivator in Trump's life is a resentment toward those who shunned him and a burning desire to prove them wrong.
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