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Robbins said he was awed by the sheer number of people. He said that it took years to assemble a crowd that size in the ’60s. Many of the protestors hoisted signs, while some flew kites and others played bongo drums and tambourines...
...theory: violence, crime and poverty were not the fault of the violent, the lawless and the poor but of society. Improve living conditions and you will cure the problems. Even mental illness and homosexuality were the result of family dynamics, went this line of reasoning. These notions, of course, flew in the face of everything conservatives held dear--the idea that the lower classes were inherently stupid and lazy, for example, and that rehabilitating lawbreakers was an exercise in futility--which may have been part of their appeal...
...lists his four talents in life: funneling beer, playing drums, spitting goon and throwing a Frisbee 98 yards. “The other day, I was at this pasture and I was like ‘Go long, bro,’ and the thing flew past him like 20 yards...
...Within hours of the Bali attacks, TIME had mobilized a team of six journalists and photographers who flew to Indonesia to join our two correspondents based there. Southeast Asian correspondent Simon Elegant, business correspondent Michael Schuman, contributing writer Andrew Marshall and contributing photo-grapher John Stanmeyer headed to Jakarta. Elegant, along with reporters Jason Tedjasukmana and Zamira Loebis, uncovered the real story of what the Indonesian government knew before the blasts and its belated responses to the terror. Schuman set out from Jakarta to piece together how these attacks will economically cripple Indonesia. Marshall and Stanmeyer headed for eastern Java...
...Meanwhile, writer-reporter Brian Bennett and contributing reporter Andrew Perrin both flew to Kuta, ground zero of the Oct. 12 blasts, to construct the definitive account of that night. Shocked by the devastation they encountered, both sought the only shelter at hand?their work. "At first I was trying to hold it together," says Bennett, "but then after seeing yet another body and another person breaking down, it finally got to me. I had to walk out of interviews shaking my head and taking deep breaths." For Perrin, an Australian, being on the scene where so many of his countrymen...