Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Jimmy Siahae hit the ground, that was the end. The Muslim mob never let him up again. Their weapons were dull--bamboo staves, kitchen knives, metal spikes--but their hatred was sharp. Siahae was 45, a Christian from the eastern Indonesian island of Ambon, suspected of attacking their mosque. As the terrible retribution began, Siahae didn't have a prayer...
...mob then followed the bus, which had apolice escort, as it left Cambridge down Mt.Auburn Street...
Then came a Boston Herald report that Capuano was involved in a questionable land transaction involving a piece of land in Somerville owned by a man who allegedly had family ties to the mob...
This daunting size, combined with Boston's renowned construction company affiliations with the mob, means that nobody quite knows when the madness will end. Nevertheless, someone is rolling around in a bed of $10.8 billion while the rest of the city struggles to maneuver their cars around pits of dirt, through leaky tunnels and over broken bridges...
...sober and cleansing as a dip in baptismal water. Joe Mantello's production--a bare stage, apostles clad in identical white shirts and khakis--is a marvel of spare inventiveness. And the hushed audience reaction at the climax testifies to an artistic success that will outlast the howling mob...