Word: rioted
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...Riot gear, police barricades: Happy Halloween from Madison, Wis.! For the past four years, the college town's annual party--one of the country's biggest--has turned violent, causing police to deploy pepper spray and arrest hundreds. With 100,000 revelers expected to flood Madison's streets for this year's bash, the city is preparing a new party-control measure. Its main drag, State Street, will be open only to those who pay a $5 entry fee. "We're recovering some of the $600,000 in taxpayers' money spent on crowd control," says Mayor Dave Cieslewicz. "Some...
...Spec also runs several opinion pieces on the matter. Their staff editorial derides "mob-rule activism." A student calls the protest a threat to free speech. Another, defending the protest, notes that there was violence on both sides. Another rates the riot as a 6, between 1 and 10. And there are letters...
...Last night, crowds overwhelmed riot police, torched cars, and occupied the headquarters of Hungarian state TV. An estimated 100 were injured. While such popular protests are common in some European countries, such as France, they remain the exception in the post-communist East, which makes the current outburst all the more surprising...
Mather House: 1. The riot-proof monstrosity designed by a prison architect. 2. The box Dunster came...
...Jagger. The folks at ABC changed the title to Let's Rob ..., then to the head-scratching The Knights of Prosperity. At some point, one suspects, they will redub it Please Don't Watch This Sitcom, but don't listen to them. This blue-collar heist comedy is a riot by any name...