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...takes both gangs down. In Fistful and the Leone-Eastwood followups For a Few Dollars More (surely the most honest title every slapped on a sequel) and The Good, the Bad & the Ugly, society was run by outlaws. The moral choice was among various shades of black. Anarchy ran riot, and the only recourse was martial - not marshall...
Welcome to Harvard, where you’re special. So special that you get to reside in historic dormitories that haven’t been renovated in decades, spend time in 70s-era failed experiments in anti-riot architecture, or if you’re really lucky, be exiled to fringe locations in the nether regions of our beautiful campus. Our condolences, Pennypacker residents. But by now, you’ve encountered the immutable Cambridge weather pattern that always makes freshman move-in day the hottest day of the school year. Don’t fret; you?...
...taken in by security forces, despite having set up a safe house in anticipation of such an occurrence. And a convoy of party leaders setting out for the airport to greet Sharif was stopped less than two miles from its departure point by scores of police armed with riot shields and metal-tipped bamboo staves. Parliamentarian Tamina Dultana, vice president of Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League party, jumped out of her Land Cruiser and charged the police, shouting, "Do or die, we will go to the airport." Within seconds her pink headscarf was swallowed by a sea of uniformed officers...
...commentator was screaming: 'Another Color is coming up! Another Color is taking the lead! Another Color can't be caught! Another Color is winning!' To hear those words, to see what was happening - the black people in the crowd almost tore up the track. It was a riot. It was one of the most exciting days in my life...
Given the rage that air travel can provoke in even the most tranquil among us these days, it may be surprising that riot police aren't a more regular feature at airports. But Sunday's pitched battle between roughly 500 environmental activists and a phalanx of baton-wielding police at London's Heathrow airport wasn't about long lines, delays, lost luggage or missed connections. Instead, the protesters - who had demonstrated outside Heathrow all of last week - were trying to draw travelers' attention to the impact on climate change of the carbon gases emitted by the aircraft in which they...