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...Quiet Riot, returning to Maine for the first time since 1983, attracted the most enthusiastic and energetic crowd...
...area concert collapsed, apparently under the weight of hundreds of youths seeking shelter from rain. Earlier, two fans were found dead at the campground, possibly from drug-related causes. And a concert near Indianapolis was canceled after a crowd of unruly fans without tickets had to be quelled by riot police. --By Kathleen Adams, Melissa August, Nick Catoggio, Lina Lofaro, Michael Quinn, Alain L. Sanders, Anastasia Toufexis and Sidney Urquhart
When James ousted 16-year incumbent Kenneth Gibson in 1986, the new mayor radiated hope for a city still scarred by the 1967 race riot that killed 26 people and left the city a wasteland of empty, brick-strewn lots. His natural charisma bridged social strata. One morning he suavely persuaded a company's executives to remain in Newark, then spied a homeless man on the street. "He bought the guy lunch, gave him a pep talk and told him to clean up and report for work at the sanitation department," recalls a subordinate...
Mather House, the riot-proof high rise designed in 1968, is color-coded according to function. Reddish brown means living space, while white indicates public space or structural support. As if that coding wasn't sterile enough, architects designed Mather's inner passages to look suspiciously like a rat maze...
Dating back to 1969, When a Black student groupused veiled promises of riot to push a balkyFaculty into creating Afro-American Studies, therehas been a tradition of strong-armed activism inthe BSA. During the deliberations over AfroAm, onestudent sat outside the Faculty room with aconcealed meat cleaver during the deliberationsover Afro-Am; few believe the department wouldhave been created without the threats...