Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Louie and John founded their business, Louie was an electrical engineer. It’s not clear what John did. He evades the question, claiming that he needs to maintain a tough reputation. The stripping business is a quick-shifting world, and the rumors of John’s mob ties deter others from stealing his customers by sending their strippers to parties that John has already booked...
Instead of an angry mob of students demanding transparency from the super-secret and dictatorial Harvard Corporation, we have Senior Gift Plus, which politely asked Harvard to stop funding rape and mass murder in Darfur. And even that noble and successful movement had its detractors: a group of largely wealthy undergrads who had pledged their own pocket money (raised no doubt, from their after-school jobs, right?) to Fair Harvard, and couldn’t absorb the idea that there was a legitimate objection to their peers duly shelling out cash...
...particularly ugly battle, in which hundreds of angry youths were involved, a black mob attacked and destroyed a group of buildings known as the Phoenix Center, founded by Mahatma Gandhi 80 years ago and now a monument to nonviolence. (Gandhi lived in South Africa from 1893 to 1915.) The episode began when hundreds of armed Indians assaulted 100 black refugees living in the center. Their motive: revenge for the previous looting and arson attacks by blacks on Indian townships...
...please, " the bishop replied with a smile, and the group obliged. Then he pulled up a chair and began the day's lesson. It was drawn from Acts 21: 27-39, the story of Paul being taken into protective custody by Roman soldiers to shelter him from a Jerusalem mob. Tutu smiled thinly. When the prayer meeting was over, the bishop leaned forward to tell his staff about the previous afternoon at Daveyton. He said that during the funeral he had heard a joke about Louis Le Grange, South Africa's Minister of Law and Order, telling State President...
...known for his love of journalists, unless, of course, the interviewer happens to be his own daughter Nancy, 45. During a rare on-camera chat, to be broadcast in two parts on the syndicated Hour Magazine this week, Frank Sinatra, 69, again answers critics who have suggested he has Mob connections. "I never had anything to do with that kind of world," he explains. "I may have been introduced to people in nightclubs who owned them and who hired us, but I'm not alone there. Everyone in our business has done the same thing." Father and daughter are planning...