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...fall of empires, they filled the news hole, they fed the many-headed media beast. Once the Soviet Union and the Cold War were gone, we have had Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, the O.J. Simpson case, Waco, Oklahoma City, the death of Princess Diana, Colombine, the Icarus descent of John Kennedy Jr, Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, Elian Gonzalez, and much, much more...
...hard to dissect a riot. a sudden eruption of anger and violence doesn't lend itself to tidy packaging. But last week, the people of Bradford were struggling to make sense of frightening scenes when hundreds of youths of Pakistani descent injured over 200 police officers and torched white-owned businesses in a predominantly Pakistani neighborhood. Those who run the city seemed shell-shocked. Was this a "simple" race riot expressing (however illegally) frustration at segregation and police harassment and unemployment? Or a bunch of thugs pumped up on testosterone and booze? Or drug dealers getting back at police...
...literature concentrator in Adams House, is associate magazine editor of The Crimson. This summmer, he is working for Let’s Go as a researcher-writer in the southern Mexican states of Oaxaca, Tabasco and Chiapas. Contrary to popular belief at Monte Alban, he is of mixed European descent and is neither Chinese nor Jewish...
...There are other signs of desperation. Macedonian police recently began handing out automatic weapons - about 2,000 so far - to "reservists," especially those who belonged to Georgievski's VMRO-DPMNE political party. Similar efforts in the early '90s had sped the descent into war in nearby Croatia and Bosnia. Graffiti signaling the emergence of Macedonian Slav paramilitaries is scrawled in Cyrillic on walls in Skopje's tumble-down neighborhoods. And when the government recently asked for some of the weapons distributed to "reservists" to be handed back, it had only minimal success...
...Every artillery round fired, meanwhile, brings fragile Macedonia closer to the precipice. "At least before everyone was living their own lives, if within their own communities," said Jabir Derala, 33, a peace activist in Skopje of mixed Albanian, Turkish and Croatian descent. "Now everybody is one sided. You can see the city is empty. Albanians are on one side of the bridge and Macedonians are on the other. " In the past, he added, "we could speak about mistrust . Now it has turned into hatred." For Captain first-class Muhaedin Bela , who says he was singled out for suspicion only because...