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...shirts were wog-free zone and ethnic cleansing unit. For several hours, police stood by as testosterone-charged participants sang, chanted, waved Australian flags and drank alcohol. Eventually, perhaps inevitably, the mood of hundreds of protesters darkened. Eyes wild, they chased and caught passers-by of Middle Eastern appearance, attacking them with fists, feet and bottles. Outnumbered, burly police spread their feet and swung their batons. Among the 13 injured were five policemen; even ambulance officers felt threatened. "I'm ashamed as a man and as the (New South Wales) Commissioner of Police," said Ken Moroney. "Never have I seen...
...Retaliation came just hours later, as hundreds of youths of Middle Eastern descent took to the streets with baseball bats and other weapons to wreak havoc and ignite fear in neighboring suburbs. Mainly, they smashed shop windows and car windscreens, though a 23-year-old man was stabbed, while another was beaten up while taking out the garbage. Last week, young men set alight or otherwise attacked several churches in south-western Sydney. Arrests reached the dozens, but the violence abated as police numbers swelled in trouble spots and community leaders pleaded for calm. Still, with new text messages rallying...
There was the closest race in Walter Payton Award history, and then there was Brown running back Nick Hartigan. The 2005 Payton Award, which is given to the best player in all of I-AA, went to Eastern Washington quarterback Erik Meyer. Meyer edged out New Hampshire sophomore quarterback Ricky Santos by five points to take home the award. Hartigan, the other member of the final three, came in 123 points behind Santos and just eight points ahead of Grambling quarterback Bruce Eugene, who finished fourth in the voting. The third-place finish was the best-ever...
...that theater works in Central Europe is very different from the way it works here. That was really inspiring, and that’s what made me declare my special concentration focus on Central European drama. I guess more than any director, I would say a place, Central to Eastern European culture, is where I draw my inspiration from...
...whole field of Middle Eastern studies has been severely compromised,” she said. “What have the universities done to teach us anything meaningful about what’s going on there? Anything we’ve learned has been in spite of what’s being taught in universities, not because...