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Breathtakingly, for the first time in the Middle East’s modern history, these peaceful protestors seem to have been successful. Their demands for political change were not met with fists, kicks, batons, tear gas, riot police, or bullets but instead with definite success and governmental responsiveness. In a region that has for so long stymied the voice of its people and crushed their aspirations, thousands of Lebanese demonstrators have been given new hope. Without any violence, they have overthrown a government and compelled dictatorial Syria to agree to begin a withdrawal that it has delayed for well over...
...supposed to buy some time, appeasing Washington without losing crucial support from hard-liners in his own Baath Party who oppose cooperation with the West. By the time Assad flew to Riyadh on Thursday, he had run out of allies. Backed by Egypt, Crown Prince Abdullah read Assad the riot act, told him to get out of Lebanon and then all but issued a transcript to reporters. "That's kind of unbrotherly talk," quipped a U.S. State Department official...
...members of the "republican movement" came to her home to warn the McGinley family off attending court or drawing attention to the case. The warning went unheeded. At one court proceeding in 2003, so many of the McGinley clan charged the dock that police called for reinforcements, grabbed riot shields and used batons to restrain them. Fisher was convicted on a reduced charge of manslaughter and sentenced to three years in prison last month. He denies being an I.R.A...
...presumed backlash was most succinctly summarized by an only partly ironic Ben Stein, a Los Angeles lawyer and economist whose E-mail to a New York Times columnist was quoted on that paper's op-ed page last Wednesday: "When O.J. gets off," he wrote, "the whites will riot the way we whites do: leave the cities, go to Idaho or Oregon or Arizona, vote for Gingrich... and punish the blacks by closing their day-care programs and cutting off their Medicaid." This grim vision was precisely what politicians feared to articulate. If they benefited from the verdict, they wanted...
...Kings of Convenience cross the Atlantic for a short one-month jaunt in the northeast states, leaving their native Norway, where their last album, 2003’s Riot on an Empty Street sold more than 400,000 European copies. The tour is discussed in an in-depth article on www.norway.org, “Norway: the official site in the United States.” The single “Misread” overtook European MTV last summer, with its low-key unplugged melancholy and crisp, autumnal video of the band relaxing and playing music in a park...