Word: mobbing
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...packed courtroom in the northeastern Chinese city of Haicheng earlier this year, he scored rhetorical points so deftly that sympathetic onlookers pumped their fists like fans at a sporting event. Chen's client, a 56-year-old talc miner named Zhao Jitian, was on trial for "assembling a mob to disrupt social order"-a politically charged criminal offense often invoked to silence Chinese citizens who band together to air grievances against their employers or the government. Police in Haicheng had arrested Zhao five months earlier after he took part in a demonstration with about 100 other laid-off employees...
...GOOD SHEPHERD Period thriller set against a backdrop of a secretive New England society known for its barbaric rituals: Yale University's Skull and Bones THE DEPARTED Profane thriller set against a backdrop of a secretive New England society known for its barbaric rituals: Boston's Irish Mob...
...played a deranged cab-driver, an aggressively tattooed ex-con with revenge fantasies, several Mob bosses and an animated shark, but in few guises does Robert De Niro strike more fear into the heart of people than when they're interviewing him. TIME sent its most talkative editor to the office of the famously tight-lipped star, a few blocks from ground zero, for a conversation about The Good Shepherd, his second directorial effort (the first was 1993's A Bronx Tale...
...first death from fan violence occurred in France, it would happen in Paris," commented Lama less than 24 hours after a supporter of his former team Paris Saint-Germain was shot and killed by plain clothes police officer trying to protect a young Jewish man from an anti-Semitic mob of nearly 150 marauding PSG fans. "All the elements were there. It has never a question of if, but when...
...riot cops - to assemble outside the stadium and stew in their notoriously dangerous juices. Along came Yanniv Hazout, 25, a Paris supporter who had come to the game sporting the colors of his favorite club, Hapoel. With shouts of "kill the Jews", and "the dirty Jew must die," the mob set after the fleeing Hazout. Spotting a lynching in the making, plain-clothes policeman Antoine Granomort thrust himself between Hazout and the mob, fending off kicks and punches with sprays of tear gas. With the horde's racist frenzy escalating at the sight of the Jewish Hazout shielded by Granomont...