Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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THEY CALLED IT KAR SEVA (HOLY WORK), BUT THE consequences were devilish. To the sounds of conch shells and clashing cymbals, a mob of Hindu fanatics wielding pickaxes, crowbars and bare hands descended upon the Babri mosque in the northern town of Ayodhya and razed it. Never mind that the Supreme Court of India, eager to preserve the nation as a secular state in which all religions are respected, had ordered that the mosque be left alone. The existence of the mosque, built by a nobleman of a Mughal Emperor in 1528 on the spot where the Hindu god Rama...
...same way they have spent every New Year's Eve since 1981, when Bill and Hillary Clinton joined fellow rising stars at Hilton Head Island for a RENAISSANCE WEEKEND of high-minded chat and a chance to bask in one another's glow. Sound like fun? This year a mob of 1,200 pols and aspiring Friends of Bill are clamoring for invitations to the exclusive camp, where 100 favored families will take part in seminars that last year ranged from "Our Fragile Planet" to "Building an Inner Life...
...that light, the true sacrifice that the Boston Tea Party was for students at the time. As patriotic Americans were hurling boxes of tea into Boston Harbor, doubtlessly there were Harvard students nearby desperately screaming for calm rationality: "What the hell are you people doing? You're a mob out of control! Sure we should make sacrifices for independence, but this is suicide...
Certain things make a reviewer nervous upon sitting down in a theater: a "pit" orchestra that seems larger than the stage, actors wandering about in character ten minutes before the lights go down, a mob of little kids running all over the place and, above all, going to see the original version of a movie musical you didn't like very much to begin with...
...mismatch between the needs of the republics and the foreign resources available is no excuse for a stingy hand on the purse strings. Western humanitarian aid during the past year provided food and medicine to hungry Russians who might otherwise have turned into an angry mob...