Word: mayhem
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...because "it can help." Far more typical is Michal Petel, 31, a Jerusalem-born mother of five who has lived in Kiryat Arba since 1981. "The peace proposal hurts, but if a few less people get killed, that would be O.K." Israeli security services are taking the threats of mayhem seriously. According to their assessment, there are at least 30,000 settlers who are armed legally with rifles and handguns, and have access to illicit stockpiles of grenades, mines and other explosives. Many of the men are well-trained reserve officers in the Israeli Defense Force. Half...
Perhaps the most surprising thing is that many travelers do their best to seek out infamous mayhem. Which may explain the explosion of tourism in Northern Ireland, where the 24-year feud between Protestants and Catholics offers a kind of terrorism theme park. So great is the demand that Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army's political wing, keeps running out of its "freedom map" of West Belfast, which pinpoints the cemetery where hunger striker Bobby Sands is buried, British observation posts, and the "peace line," a concrete barricade separating the city's Catholic and Protestant districts. Tourists who follow...
...only film to receive attention in the US. Its limited tour of the art-house and college circuit in the past two years created huge interest in the works of Mr. Woo and other Hong Kong directors. A melodramatic story of a good-hearted assassin, "The Killer" features mayhem committed on a magnitude and with a magnitude of style rarely seen in this country...
...mayhem has spawned another group, MAD DADS, which stands for Men Against Destruction -- Defending Against Drugs and Social Disorder. They start praying about 10 o'clock every Friday night, just before they hit the streets armed with two-way radios, police scanners, video cameras and a gutsy determination to stop kids from shooting one another. Seven men and two women bow their heads around a small table in the one-story, cinder-block command center in a rough part of town, hoping for peace, or at least enough rain to keep kids off the streets for one more night...
After several rounds of congressional hearings that aired concerns about violence on TV, the four networks last month announced a joint response. Starting in September, they will attach a warning label -- DUE TO SOME VIOLENT CONTENT, PARENTAL DISCRETION ADVISED -- to shows with high levels of mayhem. Over the past two weeks, network executives have trooped before junketing TV journalists in Los Angeles to stress their concerns about violence -- and assert that they aren't the only ones to blame. Next Monday a heavyweight lineup of TV producers, network executives and other industry bigwigs will meet to explore the violence issue...