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...very dangerous to public opinion,” according to Tran Quang Tuan, a leader among local refugees.Cheu, who had spent time in a Vietnamese reeducation camp, was found innocent by reason of insanity the following May.And in what appeared to be another act of arson in October, the Margaret Fuller House sustained severe damage.The Phillips Brooks House Association had recruited Harvard students to organize an after-school teenage drop-in program at the Cambridge neighborhood center before the blaze, which opened according to schedule in November. At the time, Lorraine Y. Scott—a member of the House?...
...Price of Democracy? You say that Bangladesh has been growing at 5% per year, and that that's wonderful [April 10]. Really? Any undergraduate student of economics can tell you that increased income is no measure of well-being. The acceptance of criminal behavior?murder, rape and arson?that has come with the acceptance of a confrontational two-party system means that well-being is lower today than it was under autocracy. That's not surprising: democratization and violence tend to go together. Indeed, the connection between democracy and violence is an ancient one: Thucydides and Plato were the first...
Robinson was a previous tenant of the same building who allegedly had a dispute with the landlord. He was indicted on charges of murder and arson in September...
After an uneventful national election in long-restive Solomon Islands, many expected the Parliament's choice of a Prime Minister to go smoothly. But when the 50 M.P.s chose Snyder Rini as the country's new leader on April 17, the capital, Honiara, exploded into violence. Looting and arson almost destroyed the small commercial district, setting the country's already fragile economy back years...
...stoning the police and the police cars." Tear gas was used as a last resort to allow Rini to escape to safety, Spinks says. When the officers retreated into the building, half the 1,000-strong mob stayed around Parliament and the other half headed for Chinatown, starting an arson and looting spree that continued for two days...