Word: mobbed
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...headquarters, cots were set up and meals were brought in to make researchers more comfortable as they worked around the clock. Eighty people arrived at a Staten Island, N.Y., hospital fearing they had been exposed on a ferry. "It was a mob mentality," a doctor said. Clinicians tried to reason with people, explaining that their odds of being hit by a car while running to the ER are far greater than their chances of contracting anthrax. "We've been testing a lot of Sweet'N Low, drywall dust, sugar and talcum powder," said Kathy Barton, chief of public affairs...
...colleagues—to risk their lives for the sake of a few pictures. Mavroleon was one of two journalists featured who were killed in action after the film’s completion, but its main protagonist is Dan Eldon, who was stoned to death by a violent Somali mob in 1992. He was 22. The portrait is wrenchingly intimate—the film’s host is Eldon’s sister, Amy Eldon, and its producer is his mother, Kathy Eldon, who is also an international journalist...
...uses bold, almost Warholesque colors and swirling lines to create an elegant interchange. Almost dizzying to look at, each line appears to be a dancer, sensuously curved and filled with fluid motion. Towards the right side of the canvas, the lines degenerate into a kind of mob chaos, as they begin to overlap and move less smoothly and more abruptly. Consisting of only two colors and a single type of line, Williams manages to convert her canvas into an orchestrated ballet...
...bureau official, "and trying to hold on to them until we can figure things out...We're playing protective defense. We can't let it happen again." Attorney General Robert Kennedy used the "spitting on the sidewalk" strategy--prosecuting small-time offenses to bag big-time suspects--against the Mob. But the strategy began to disappear in the 1970s, when criminal-justice priorities shifted to protecting citizens' rights. Ashcroft has brought it back; as of Friday, some 700 people had been locked up as result of the Sept. 11 investigation--and "a couple hundred" more had been arrested overseas with...
With a cast of characters whose last names are all some variety of pasta, Joey and Maria’s cannot boast subtlety as its strong suit. The various grandmothers are overbearing figures; both bride and groom have ties to the mob; the bridesmaids smoke and wheeze while delivering speeches that tastelessly explore the bride’s purity...