Word: mobbing
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...first flash mob, a spontaneous and momentary convergence of people at a predetermined location, was held in June in New York City. Since that time, similar events have been organized throughout the United States and western Europe...
Yesterday’s flash mob, like each of its national precedents, was organized over the Internet—in this case, through an anonymously moderated Yahoo group called “bostoncitymob,” which boasted over 600 subscribers as of last evening...
...nations' animosity runs deep. Historical grievances about Pakistan's former sponsorship of the Taliban, and more recent ones over what Kabul claims are Pakistani incursions into its territory, played into the hostilities. A mob of Afghans furious about the alleged incursions trashed the Pakistani embassy in Kabul last week. Afghan President Hamid Karzai is vexed by the refuge Taliban leaders have found in Pakistan's northwestern provinces. "The Afghans are convinced that the Pakistanis know where these Taliban leaders are--but they won't catch them," a diplomat explains. It was only after Karzai and Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf spoke...
...first people indicted, and one of the last major war-crimes suspects still at large. The arrest triggered violent protests by hard-line nationalists who tried to prevent the police from taking him into custody. When police broke into his apartment, they were attacked by a mob of several hundred protesters, who were than dispersed by tear gas and shock grenades. "Sljivancanin himself offered no resistance," said Serbian Police Minister Dusan Mihajlovic. - By Dejan Anastasijevic/Belgrade Judging the Future U.K. As part of a Cabinet reshuffle, Prime Minister Tony Blair announced radical proposals that would increase the judiciary's independence from...
...four-day trip through Siberia, Kieran befriended a German backpacker going to work with children in Mongolia and managed to escape from a man he believed to be a member of the Russian mob. He then boarded a train to Mongolia, followed by a 35-hour bus ride through the Gobi desert to Beijing. In this bus, which Kieran describes as the “modern equivalent of a slave galley,” the passengers lay in four-level bunks. They slept with their hands shielding their faces to keep their noses from slamming against the higher bunk when...