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...Tweens mob Times Square for final episode...
...show's themes and Chiklis' brooding, minotaur-like physicality invite comparison with that Urtext of male antiheroes, The Sopranos. But our relationship with Mackey is more complicated--and self-implicating--than ours was with Tony Soprano. Tony was roguish and funny; we even rooted for him against other Mob bosses. But we had more distance from him because he was a criminal and a sociopath, beyond redemption and beyond our experience...
...would say that because Barack Obama exemplifies this melting pot, he is more American than many of us. But this brand of attack is not new, as the article implies. I think of the 1920s and the red scare and the extreme nationalism that led to immigrant quotas and mob violence. Don't we all look back at that time and shudder at how we treated those who came from another place? Our incredible ingenuity, our innovation, our ideas, our universities - all these are the product of our ability to attract the brightest minds from all over the world...
...claims responsibility, they are not alone in their frustration with the state government. After the bombs went off, an angry group of people vented their frustration over the time it took for help to reach the dozens hurt by the blasts. When the police and fire brigade arrived, the mob pelted them with stones and set fire to government vehicles. Singh, the police official, said he was hit with one of the stones and required three stitches in his leg. The central government, too, is treating this attack as a significant blow to its attempts to improve security in India...
...Detroit “expected to hear a message of humility, remorse and apology. Instead, we heard an arrogant and defiant man who accused the governor, among others, for his downfall.” (Kilpatrick had denied the allegations and likened the media furor around him to a lynch mob...