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...amazingly, Rustin never showed bitterness. He had every right to be inflamed against the white establishment, which at one point sentenced him to hard labor on a chain gang as punishment for his early civil rights protests. And he had every reason to be embittered by his black allies, for their acquiescence in the gay baiting. Yet somehow he rose above both. In one telling incident, he completed his sentence on the chain gang by writing a conciliatory letter to the sadistic white officer who ran the prison. Somehow, Rustin never succumbed to the anger that was his right...
...inspiration there, including alleged shoe bomber Richard Reid, Zacarias Moussaoui, now in a U.S. prison, and Djamel Beghal, a Franco-Algerian who is now in French custody and believed to have taken orders from Abu Zubaydah, a top associate of Osama bin Laden. Some members of the alleged ricin gang are also rumored to have attended the Finsbury Park mosque. Britain may now be taking a harder line with Abu Hamza. The one-eyed cleric, who lost both hands and an eye to a landmine in Afghanistan, could be suspended from his preaching job by the Charity Commission, which...
...about gun crimes is a rude shock for many Britons, shaking their smug self-image as a relatively gun-free society, far removed from those trigger-happy cowboys across the Atlantic. The Birmingham carnage - two girls died and two were injured in the cross-fire between two turf-warring gangs - was supposed to happen in places like Los Angeles or New York, not in British cities where the archetypal bobby goes unarmed. But the Jan. 2 shootings and the gun-crime statistics don't surprise those who live in Britain's inner cities, where drug gangs, particularly Jamaican dealers, protect...
...California, O’Keefe joined the Actors’ Gang, a theater known for its “really brilliant, stolen commedia dell’arte technique...
Keythe Farely and Brian Flemming, two colleagues from the Actors’ Gang, inspired Bat Boy when they showed O’Keefe a tabloid about an escaped bat creature...