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Last Thursday, 10,000 civil rights activists from across the country rallied in Jena, La. to protest and commemorate events that occurred in and around the local high school. A series of racially-motivated altercations culminated in a cafeteria brawl in December 2006. The victim, a white student who allegedly taunted the black students with racial slurs, was hospitalized but released a few hours later and attended a party that evening. The defendants, six black minors, were arrested and charged with second-degree murder...
...people quaffing imported whisky and showing off breast implants. Despite massive oil profits, eggs have been absent from the shelves of my local supermarket for so many months that their designated shelf has been given over to Tupperware. The mayor of Caracas has been filmed getting into a short brawl with fans at an international soccer tournament, and has proposed to deal with rampant crime by floating blimps with crime-detecting cameras in the sky. Venezuela has never been wanting for weirdness; even so, August was a stellar month...
...original version of the article incorrectly stated that Ron Artest brawled with fans during a game in Indianapolis. The brawl actually occurred during a game in Detroit...
...convention in Auckland, where she was raped by at least 15 men, beaten, urinated on, covered in petrol and photographed over a nine-hour period before she escaped. In 1996, police witness Christopher Crean, who had testified against Black Power members who'd taken part in a violent brawl, was murdered in front of his wife and children when a shotgun was fired through his front door as he answered it. These and similar crimes prompted governments to pass laws allowing witnesses to testify in secret and giving police greater power to seize the proceeds of crime...
...alone. Leading the way for the Crimson was junior two-meter and co-captain Lauren Snyder. Snyder scored 22 goals and tallied a team-leading 46 steals, but the numbers do not tell the whole story. Snyder, who was rarely rested, found herself in an underwater brawl in almost every game—she drew a team-best 18 ejections. The combination of statistical production and obvious grit earned Snyder an All-Northern Division First-Team nod. Co-captain and junior driver Vivian Laio was off to a prolific start to the season with 18 goals and 16 assists through...