Word: mobbing
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...Alevi lore, encouraged people to turn the other cheek and love their neighbors. Alevis generally embraced Kemal Ataturk's separation of church and state in the 1930s, but their outsider status drew many to leftist politics. The Alevis in Germany started organizing politically in July 1993, after a mob in the Turkish city of Sivas torched a hotel where satirist Aziz Nesin, known for lampooning religious extremism, was entertaining at an Alevi function. Thirty-seven people died, and images of the "Sivas Martyrs" quickly appeared on the walls of Alevi culture centers across Europe. Says Karan: "Those...
...channel my OCD into repeatedly clicking the send/receive button on Outlook in anticipation of my package notification, I muse about how I might try to remedy this cable drought were I a mob boss from New Jersey rather than a lowly student journalist from Harvard. But then again, I’ll never know. I don’t have...
Mohammed Rashud Ashraf is trapped deep inside enemy territory, and he's about to blow his cover. A mob of flag-waving Sri Lankans, dancing to the hypnotic beat of bongo drums, has surrounded him. Undaunted, Rashud rises from his seat, his country's colors proudly displayed on his T-shirt, and stands defiant. "Pakistan is the greatest," he screams...
Hundreds of students waited in mob-like lines for a chance at tickets to the speech, gathering as early as 1 p.m. outside the Charles Hotel. Institute of Politics officials began distributing tickets to the crowd at 3 p.m., but many students were turned away...
Yeah, yeah, you say, but who gets whacked? Well, there is an affecting, resonant death in the opening episodes (sorry, I'm not saying who), but it comes in a traffic accident, not a Mob hit. That's the trick of The Sopranos: it pulls you in with the tease of intrigue and death, and it ends up enthralling you with the passion and sadness of ordinary life...