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Dueling Political Castes The current brawl is more than a personal feud. It pits the older, cosseted caste of statesmen and dignitaries against a younger, feistier generation more driven by election victories and policy results than diplomas and refinement. The split is perfectly personified in Sarkozy and Villepin. Born and raised abroad to a diplomat father and a judicial official mother, Villepin attended the élite schools that produce France's top civil servants. True to his family's aristocratic roots, the suave, permatanned Villepin is famous for writing poetry and studies of Napoleon. Despite winning praise as Foreign Affairs...
Four Chicago teens have been arrested in the murder of Derrion Albert, a 16-year-old who was beaten to death on Sept. 24 after he stumbled onto a brawl between rival gangs on his way home from school. The attack, captured by a cell-phone camera, has ignited outrage in a city that witnessed the murders of 34 public-school students last year...
...recently been ejected from her party. On the same day, a house party in Dorchester ended in chaos when apparently unprovoked gunfire broke out, killing 21-year-old Carl Hentz Belizaire and injuring three guests. The other three victims are expected to recover. Finally, at 5 a.m. Sunday, a brawl involving 15 to 20 individuals took a potentially deadly turn as one man pulled out a machete and left three others hospitalized with stab wounds. All are expected to survive, but their attacker escaped...
...wasn’t being assaulted or mugged. I was actually at the MAC, doing my regular cardio workout on an elliptical machine while watching a bro-brawl on 'Real World Cancun'. I was surrounded by others in the same situation: students trudging through their routines, zero calorie fitness water in hand, intently watching people with lives less monotonous than their...
...July 5 young Uighurs, a Turkic ethnic minority that largely practices Islam, rioted in the city, attacking majority Han Chinese. The riot was touched off when police aggressively blocked a protest over the death of two Uighurs during a June factory brawl in the coastal Guangdong province. Two days after the riot, thousands of Han gathered to carry out revenge attacks. Paramilitary forces were able to keep the revenge mobs from Urumqi's Uighur quarter, thus preventing another bloodbath. But some Uighurs were seriously beaten and possibly killed that day. All told, the July violence left nearly 200 dead...