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Before they could get inside to read that sign last week, pupils of Holy Cross--Roman Catholic girls as young as four, none older than 11--got a brutal lesson in belief. To get to school, they had to run a gauntlet of abuse from their Protestant neighbors that began with insults and spit and within days escalated to bricks and blast bombs. Scores of police and soldiers were injured protecting the children. As the chaos spread, a Protestant school bus was stoned, and a Catholic motorist--apparently reacting to stone-throwing attacks--struck and killed a Protestant teenager...
...blast from a bomb thrown at a group of Catholic children trying to reach the Holy Cross Girls' Primary School. It was the third day of trauma for the children whose path to school runs briefly down a Protestant street where they were forced to walk a gauntlet of taunting, abuse and violence reminiscent of the images of school desegregation battles of the American South...
...gauntlet has been thrown. And I, for one, eagerly await any show willing to take up the challenge...
...bill, introduced on Monday, is running a two-week-long gauntlet on the Senate floor, with scheduled votes every three hours on this amendment or that, most of them put forth by reform opponents looking to kill McCain-Feingold by diluting it to death...
...this season there were also the tempers. LVMH threw down the gauntlet by canceling Alexander McQueen?s last haute couture show for Givenchy on the eve of fashion week. The official explanation?production problems caused by the 35-hour workweek?didn?t fool anyone. McQueen had recently sold 51% of his own company to Gucci Group. More likely is the theory that LVMH wasn?t out to promote the defector. Yves Saint Laurent, who also recently sold his ready-to-wear business to Gucci, had some petty fun at his own show, seating the Gucci-appointed president in the third...