Word: mobbing
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...least 10 people. Officials say the arrests could lead them to the blast's alleged mastermind, Malaysian Azahari bin Husin. Burning Question MEXICO Riot police arrested more than 30 people in connection with the murder of two undercover policemen, who were beaten and set on fire by a mob that suspected them of kidnapping children. A third officer was hospitalized in critical condition. Officials launched an inquiry into why it took reinforcements so long to reach the scene. Laying Down Arms COLOMBIA Some 450 members of the paramilitary United Self-Defense Forces (AUC) disarmed as part of the ongoing peace...
Ilija and Blaguna Trajkovic don't think much of democracy. Forced by an ethnic Albanian mob to leave their home in the Kosovo capital, Pristina, last March, and then obliged to stand by as the 19th century Serbian Orthodox church they had taken care of was torched, the Serb couple now live in a shipping container in the enclave of Gracanica, south of Pristina. In the past month, successive international delegations have urged the Trajkovics and 130,000 other members of the Serb minority living in Kosovo to participate in this week's elections for the Kosovo Assembly, the provisional...
...know, before he started making claptrap like Paycheck? Well, there is a new Hong Kong action flick that those in the know have been talking about since its 2002 megablockbuster release in its native country: Infernal Affairs. It is the story of a cop who is undercover in the mob and a mob man working undercover as a cop. But this is no namby-pamby Donnie Brasco knockoff. Both sides realize they have a traitor, and the action begins in the classic Hong Kong action style. The remake, to be directed by Martin Scorsese, is already in production. Catch...
...music. This course reached its zenith in 1987 with their final single, the five-minute “Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me,” an epic replete with stings, wails and a two-minute intro of sparse piano under the sounds of an angry mob that stands as perhaps the saddest thing I have ever heard in my life. To be fair, this one made Rob’s list...
...chorus of the tense, agitated “Length of Love” is the odd mantra, “Combat salacious removal.” And the closer, “A Time to Be So Small,” has something about a “cadaverous mob.” The lyrics rarely drive the songs here, and are often difficult to decipher; Banks derives his authority as a singer less from the power of his words than from the uniquely disengaged brand of affliction that comes out of his throat...