Word: rioted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their extended jam sessions have improved over the years as the connection among band members has strengthened. Guitarist Trey Anastasio and keyboardist Page McConnell were especially in synch the weekend after Thanksgiving, working off of each other to increase the enthusiasm of a crowd that was pumped enough to riot the moment that the band stepped on stage...
...senior aide, however, the Chairman's remarks, to a gathering of his Fatah organization, were meant for local consumption only. Arafat, says the official, is furious with the group's secretary-general, MARWAN BARGHOUTI, who has led an anticorruption campaign within Fatah that culminated in an anti-P.A. riot in Ramallah last month. The ferocious rhetoric, says the source, was aimed at rallying Fatah activists behind Arafat. When Israeli Prime Minister BENJAMIN NETANYAHU vowed to freeze the land transfer until Arafat recanted, the Chairman, according to a confidant, regretted the remarks. It was U.S. special envoy DENNIS ROSS...
...Jakarta throughout last week, student-led marchers clashed with riot troops assigned to protect a special session of the People's Consultative Assembly, the nation's highest constitutional body. On Friday night the run-ins exploded into a full-fledged battle, with soldiers chasing and shooting protesters with rubber bullets at close range. By dawn at least 14 civilians had been killed; more than 200 were reported wounded. At the Assembly building, sealed off by loops of razor wire and thousands of soldiers and police, legislators passed 12 toothless decrees that only glancingly acknowledged the students' demands to exorcise...
...senior aide, however, the chairman's remarks, to a gathering of his Fatah organization, were meant for local consumption only. Arafat, says the official, is furious with the group?s secretary-general, Marwan Barghouti, who has led an anticorruption campaign within Fatah that culminated in an anti-P.A. riot in Ramallah last month. The ferocious rhetoric, says the source, was aimed at rallying Fatah activists behind Arafat. When Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to freeze the land transfer until Arafat recanted, the chairman, according to a confidant, regretted the remarks. It was U.S. special envoy Dennis Ross...
...Yeah, it was a huge surprise. At the time we wrote and recorded Zoot Suit Riot, the kind of bands on the radio were Bush and Smashing Pumpkins. Swing was the farthest thing from what seemed to be happening in pop music. We never thought this style of music would get the kind of coverage that...