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...Rioting started at a Sunday-morning service when one man charged down the aisle, hit the chaplain in the face, grabbed his microphone and started yelling obscenities into it. As the revolt spread, inmates brutalized other prisoners and smashed and set fire to the facility. Some climbed on roofs and threw tiles at riot police who gathered below. Strangeways governor Brendan O'Friel described the outburst as "an explosion of evil . . . possibly the worst incident in the history of the prison service...
There is little self-conscious artiness on display. The exhibits mainly exemplify rare, happy confluences of art and commerce, from Deborah Sussman's chair advertisement for the Herman Miller company to Times Square's unplanned riot of electric signs. Graphic design is a populist art, this show declares. It derives its energy and value not from precious drawing-board perfection but from getting out and mixing it up in the rialto...
...would Bush be maneuvering if he didn't have the cushion of an approval rating hovering around 80%? If the economy were on the skids and his popularity at 40%, would he revert to the tough-guy rhetoric that characterized his presidential campaign? Would he have resisted reading the riot act to Kohl? Would he risk alienating America's powerful Jewish lobby by playing hardball with Shamir? No doubt Bush will have tough moments somewhere along the line -- and then we will have an answer...
Bush originally conceived the summit during the 1988 presidential campaign as a forum for reading the riot act to Latin leaders about their failure to curb the tidal wave of cocaine that continues to flood the U.S. But that was before Colombia embarked on its brave and costly offensive against the narcotraficantes and the U.S. launched its military strike against Panamanian strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega, stoking long-standing regional resentments of gringo imperialist intervention...
Frank was also questioned about cases when free speech should be considered criminal. Although he agreed that inciteful speech was not protected he said that there was a distinction between "incitement to riot and assaults on dignity. The First Amendment protects the right to do [the latter] verbally...