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...first time that Serbia has weathered bad leaders. And while the new crop may be reactionary, they won't be marching Serbia back to war anytime soon, even though sometimes it can feel that way. On a chilly recent evening in downtown Belgrade, several dozen police in full riot gear fanned out to block a major thoroughfare. Passersby looked on in alarm, until it became apparent that it was a stunt, designed to publicize the opening of a new film about the violent 1996-97 anti-Milosevic riots. As for Milosevic and Seselj, Hague officials late last week banned both...
Tracy and the Plastics, a riot-grrl band fronted by critically renowned visual artist Wynne Greenwood, WHEN performed at the Cabot House Underground Theatre—but the singer’s bandmates and instruments were nowhere to be found onstage, appearing only on the video screen behind...
...stay close to his Maryland home. Will a charismatic young star be what the sport needs to build its U.S. fan base? "Give soccer 10 years here, it'll be just as popular as it is everywhere else," Adu says. Doesn't he know Americans only like to riot over trade agreements...
...series of events over the last four weeks." Indeed: a band of congressmen tried (unsuccessfully) to impeach the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; the administration of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo saw a mini-exodus of officials, including respected Finance Secretary Jose Isidro Camacho; kidnap gangs ran riot in Manila; power blackouts were predicted for vast stretches of the country. And the day Poe became a candidate, a shadowy group of soldiers released a manifesto threatening a coup if Arroyo didn't clean up the government...
...seen 12 inmates die this way. Ahmed Nazim, 27, an opposition spokesman, rages that Gayoom has spread "fear" across the islands with a "culture of torture and abuse." On Sept. 19 guards at Maafushi beat to death inmate Hassan Eevan Naseem, a convicted drug abuser, sparking a riot in which three prisoners were shot dead. After Naseem's funeral the next day, a mob of hundreds rampaged through Mal?, torching and ransacking courts, election offices, police stations and other symbols of the regime...