Mister, are you a gangster? Yes.

As an accomplished computer user, what Dimitry did was to transfer the gangster capitalism of his hometown onto the Worldwide Web.

He left Pyongyang in July saying that progress had been made, only for North Korea within hours to denounce him for making gangster like demands.

In other words, Bo bore all the hallmarks of a gangster boss corrupt, ruthless towards his enemies, contemptuous of the law, and yet moralistic in his self presentation. But the same could be said of most Party bosses in China.

If we connive in or tolerate the gangster like logic that only big countries can possess nuclear weapons in order to threaten or attack small countries, then essential changes will take place in the international order that will surely push non nuclear weapon States towards acquiring nuclear deterrence.

NEW DELHI On July 30, Yakub Memon, a chartered accountant and the brother of a notorious gangster now living in self imposed exile, was hanged for complicity in the planning and execution of serial bomb blasts that killed 257 people in Mumbai in 1993. The hanging, India s first in three years, has prompted reactions ranging from dismay to scarcely concealed bloodlust.

MOSCOW Germany s ex Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is a legend in Russia. He serves Gazprom s interests for a measly couple of million euros a year, sits in at sessions of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and writes books about his staunch friendship with Genosse Wladimir, who, in the not so distant past, earned himself the well deserved nickname of Stasi among business circles in gangster ridden St. Petersburg.

To compensate, Yakuza groups plunged into financial fraud, stock manipulation, and cybercrime, giving rise to a new generation of gangster nerds, more interested in business than blackmail. For instance, Yamaguchi Gumi, the largest Yakuza organization in Japan, boasts roughly 36,000 members and associate members, constituting less than a half of the total Yakuza gangsters in Japan, and is estimated to haul in as much as 2 trillion ( 21 billion) annually.