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...year 27 teenagers were murdered in London, many by other teenagers. This year's toll has already reached 20 and includes Robert Knox, an 18-year-old actor who plays a trainee wizard in the forthcoming Harry Potter movie, and who was reportedly killed defending his brother in a brawl over a stolen mobile phone. On July 1 hundreds of demonstrators marched through Islington, Hackney's neighboring borough, to protest the knifing outside a local pub of 16-year-old Ben Kinsella, a straight-A student whose sister starred in a popular TV soap opera. Nine days later, four Londoners...
...Journalists searching for news in Denver will find this theme irresistible. A modern convention is choreographed as if by Balanchine with scripts tight enough for Chekhov - and any brawl is more interesting than a coronation. Few know this better than the Clinton family, which had to deal with the bruised feelings of former California governor Jerry Brown's delegates at the 1992 convention that nominated Bill Clinton...
...luck when she took in her first live game at Fenway last season. “I couldn’t find my Jeter shirt,” she recalled, “but my boyfriend said point-blank he wouldn’t defend me during a brawl, so maybe it was a good thing I didn’t wear it.”Let there be no mistake—Yankee fans are no angels. They’re overconfident, defenders of regressive economic policy, and are quick to lord over rivals with sepia-toned stories...
...deadly violence among British teens. Former child actor Robert Knox, who was cast as the minor character Marcus Belby in the sixth Harry Potter movie and had signed on to appear in the seventh and final film, was stabbed to death while defending his younger brother in a brawl outside a pub in Kent...
...subway. In Red Square, a football pitch had been set up right by Lenin's tomb, and Russian and British fans played pickup games under a bizarre combination of Bolshevik stars and Imperial eagles. The combination of official goodwill and vigilance appears to have been successful - just a single brawl among the Russian and British fans was reported throughout...