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When Democrats convened in 1968 to nominate Hubert Humphrey in Chicago, violence erupted in the surrounding streets as law enforcement clashed with students gathered to protest Lyndon Johnson’s war. Inside the hall, one Senator denounced the “Gestapo tactics” of Mayor Daley’s police, while the nation watched aghast as their televisions carried images of students being beaten outside. Incredibly, no one was killed, but the violence became one of many bitter moments etched in the nation’s memory of the turbulent...
...outlines of a “repressive political script.” He said his experience in Miami was not a good sign. There, when protestors demonstrated against the Free Trade Area of the Americas, they were met with a strategy of overwhelming force which Miami’s mayor later described as a “model for homeland security.” Using federal officers and money from the $87 billion appropriated to fight terrorism in Iraq, the security in Miami was clearly based on a philosophy of regarding demonstrators as the enemy. The incident was surprisingly underreported...
Mahan also said that he is planning to meet with Cambridge Mayor Michael Sullivan to discuss placing “blue-light” phones in Cambridge Common...
Even before the fat fracas ignited a war of facts, it had already dragged New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg into the lardy mix. At a fire fighters' carb-laden pasta lunch on Jan. 20, when Bloomberg didn't realize he was being filmed by a local TV station, he said, "I don't believe that bulls___, that he dropped dead slipping on the sidewalk." Bloomberg also said the Atkins-friendly food he once sampled at the deceased doctor's home was so bad "I had to spit it into my napkin." And he called Atkins "fat." When pressed...
...both sides of the debate agree that the most serious divisions within French society spring not from head scarves but from economic and social inequality. "There isn't a single Muslim in Parliament to vote on this law and not a single Arab among all the country's mayors," laments conservative politician and civil rights activist Zaïr Kedadouche. "France is broken." Consider these signs of fracture: unemployment in the banlieue often runs at more than double the national level of 9.7%, and the jobless rate among banlieue youths with a college or vocational diploma is four times higher...