Word: arresting
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...suit, Angier alleged that he was thrownagainst a patrol car and beaten with a billy clubduring an arrest on April...
Angier had fled Harvard Square after an unarmedrobbery. He was pursued by both Cambridge andHarvard police officers and was allegedly beatenby Kotowski after resisting arrest...
...emotion and Beckettian sensitivity to the downtrodden. For many people, Fugard's dramas mattered less than the taboos they broke -- The Blood Knot put a black actor alongside a white one on the same Johannesburg stage -- and the punishments they brought, including revocation of his passport and virtual house arrest from 1967 to 1971. Those experiences ensured a niche in history but also made his storytelling seem limited to a place and time. His plays were often treated as a field correspondent's dispatches...
Bangkok -- DAW AUNG SAN SUU KYI, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the leader of the Burmese democracy movement, has been held under house arrest by the military government in Burma for more than four years. Last week, when she was allowed to break her silence and meet with U.S. Congressman Bill Richardson of New Mexico, human rights wasn't the only thing on her mind. "She asked me if I thought Michael Jordan was going to make it as a baseball player," says Richardson. "We made a friendly bet -- she bet that he would make...
...Winthrop courtyard was quiet after the arrest, Ferullo said. "There was all this police activity but no one around to see it," he said. "It didn't seem like there was really anyone around...