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When the government initiated a stock-market experiment, as many as 1 million Chinese poured into Shenzhen to buy lottery tickets entitling 500,000 winners to buy 1,000 shares apiece. Would-be investors soon heaved themselves into a riot that brought out cops with tear gas and truncheons. A day later, the government announced that it would double the number of applications. Dao Djonz listings should follow soon...
...track, in the next few weeks. But Ice-T fans will still be able to get their hands on the single. The rapper said he'll give away old versions of Body Count at concerts. "I'll bring it back to South Central," he proclaimed, referring to L.A.'s riot-torn neighborhood...
JUSTICE: The L.A. Riot's Unlikely Heroes...
...Also, Arkansas kept intruding. His one job was in Fulbright's Senate office. Clinton took roommates from Georgetown to visit Arkansas, and friends from there came to see him. Staley was visiting him when, in the wake of Dr. King's assassination, Clinton drove food to churches in the riot area. Like Fulbright himself, Clinton won a Rhodes scholarship when he finished college...
Earlier the same week in another part of South Central Los Angeles, black activist and entrepreneur Danny Bakewell, president of L.A.'s Brotherhood Crusade, led a coalition of minority contractors who were protesting their exclusion from riot-related demolition and construction by shutting down work sites that employed no African Americans. After one South Central site that had not a single black on a 10-man crew was shut down on a Friday, it was reopened the following Monday with newfound black workers. "Miraculously, black people were born and gained five years' experience," says Bakewell sarcastically...