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...government had fully expected such a clash. More than 10,000 black-clad riot police had sealed off entire areas of the city in an attempt to prevent demonstrators from expressing their support for two pro-reform judges who were scheduled to appear in front of a disciplinary hearing that morning. The judges, Mahmoud Mekky and Hesham El Bastawissi, face possible expulsion from the bench after calling for the independence of Egypt's judiciary and protesting ballot fraud during last year's parliamentary elections. Their case is fast becoming a cause celebre in Egypt, where President Hosni Mubarak...
...Serbia and Montenegro No entry Even the soothing sounds of boy-band crooning can't calm tensions in Serbia and Montenegro. Although a Montenegrin pop group called No Name won a national selection heat, accusations of vote fixing and Montenegrin favoritism turned the Belgrade competition into a riot. Serbians called for a new vote, but the Montenegrins refused, leaving the Balkan federation not only without No Name but also with no entry...
...chasm is becoming a nexus. In Italy, Sabina Guzzanti is a self-described buffoon (it has a slightly loftier connotation in Italian) and TV personality. In 2003 she launched a weekly show of political satire called RaiOt - for the network that carried it, RAI Tre, and the English word Riot. The comedy she perpetrated was unexceptional: getting made up as Silvio Berlusconi, Italy?s head of state, and telling jokes about him. But the show was cancelled after one airing, possibly because Berlusconi, a major industrialist, also owns RAI. "One man controls the government, the media and business," says...
...they articulately roll their tongues around lengthy rhymes chock full of SAT vocabulary, but they used flamboyant inflection and expression, so that the average audience member was able to understand and enjoy the long-winded bouts of Aristophanes. Perfectly deserving of his lead role, Chase-Levenson was a riot and every inch the conniving, enterprising Athenian—smirking as he stalked around in his Greek sandals, fantasizing about the perks of power. The few fleeting dance scenes were more chaotic than choreographed, but they oddly fit the image of a city of fluttering birds. And although not spectacular...
...France is spectacularly good at saying non. Naysayers are often fêted in heroic, Joan-of-Arc terms; when the student demonstrations exploded in March, Paris Match ran a thrilling cover photo of two young people locked in a dance-floor embrace in front of a cordon of riot police. But behind the scenes, more quietly and with no discernible romance, France can and does also say oui. For every rock-throwing protester posing for TV cameras outside the Sorbonne, there is a polished technocrat in an anonymous office patiently pushing the modernization envelope. The changes those technocrats...