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...square had seen the likes of it. Parties in China don't just happen, especially Communist Party parties. The last big one came two years ago when the republic turned 50 and the government was so worried that celebrations would turn against its leaders that it declared downtown Beijing off-limits to anyone without an invitation and urged ordinary people to sit home and watch a fireworks display on television. This time, for hours after Jiang's surprise appearance, students sat in groups painting red stars on their faces, families held midnight picnics on the flagstones and groups of strangers...
...American anarchists, as the slogan goes, think globally but act locally. How local? Four years ago, a Eugene activist upset about the razing of some downtown trees deliberately vomited on the mayor. More recently, the "Anarchist Golfing Association" trashed a research project on putting greens conducted by an Oregon seed company, causing $500,000 in damage. "Grass, like industrial culture, is invasive," charged an anonymous e-mail from a Eugene library...
...rioters' thuggery and their attack on their own neighborhood, where he has built up his business for 30 years. He's thinking of organizing other Asian businesses to support the looted white-owned firms. He's doubtful that the rioters had any coherent politics; they showed up downtown to confront a rally by the racist National Front, which was banned, so they turned their Molotov cocktails on the police. Slowly they were pushed back toward his neighborhood, where, he says, "some of them took advantage of a situation that was out of control." But even this pillar of the community...
...Working from a closet-size cubicle on the eighth floor of the D.A.'s office in downtown Philadelphia, the deceptively low-key DiBenedetto, now 49, gradually shrank behind a growing wall of cardboard boxes - his Einhorn files. He never had the luxury of devoting full attention to Einhorn, but it was always a priority. Although he sat at his desk, he worked from inside Einhorn's mind, having studied every word in the 63 different 150-page journals Einhorn left behind. Among the lines that stopped him, revealing the cold depths of Einhorn's darkness, were these: "Sadism - sounds nice...
When allied troops were in Genoa after World War II, MPs painted the words OFF LIMITS on some of the streets downtown in an effort to keep soldiers away from the city's petty thieves and prostitutes. Not much has changed since: some of the tiny alleys in the old part of this medieval port city, while picturesque, are best avoided. If you know where to go, you can still enjoy memorable shops and museums in Genoa--even if you're one of the thousands of business and government executives who will be joining President Bush and other heads...