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...many shoe nerds, Nike rules. Since it first issued a retro Air Jordan in 1994, Nike has consistently created some of the rarest, most coveted sneakers. In 2001 in a Sacramento, Calif., mall, 60 police officers in riot gear faced a tense crowd of 200 people ready to battle over 80 pairs of Nike Jordan Retro XIs that were being put up for sale. This summer the most coveted shoe is the Nike Heineken Dunk, the first in a six-pack of collectible Dunks. Riot cops, beware. There were reportedly only 1,000 pairs made. --By Lisa McLaughlin
...supposed to be the party to end all parties, on Thailand's premier party isle; a riot of noise and color that would banish the specters of terrorism and SARS and celebrate Koh Samui's transformation from druggy refuge to haven of good, clean family fun. The Beach author Alex Garland was out, floral garlands were in?if you bought the hype...
...Southern Iraq, local tribal leaders have sorted out property disputes and murder cases for centuries without the help of police and courts. So when Sheik Mohammed al-Ebadi got a call from a British officer to help defuse a riot in Majar al-Kabir, northwest of Basra, he drove there, fast. As he approached the village, he saw British paratroopers engaged in a fierce fire fight with locals armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades. The locals, enraged by reports of heavy-handed searches carried out by British troops, had attacked a patrol. When the fighting was done, four...
...have the ability to cause damage." The intelligence agency knows the identity of the mastermind and has him under surveillance. But no arrest has been made because authorities are still gathering evidence. Officials are worried that if they detain the man without convincing proof, Muslims in southern Thailand could riot. The Thais arrested in May, including a doctor, were prominent members of the Muslim community; many in the south claim they are innocent. But officials know they must move fast; the plotters may have set October as a target date. "If we detect signs that [the suspect at large...
...Riot Acts SERBIA Dozens were injured in Belgrade riots following the arrest of war-crimes suspect Veselin Sljivancanin, the Yugoslav army colonel indicted for the slaughter of more than 200 prisoners of war in the Croatian city of Vukovar in 1991. Sljivancanin, 50, was arrested by Serbian police in his Belgrade home after spending almost eight years as a fugitive from the Hague-based U.N. war-crimes tribunal. He was one of the first people indicted, and one of the last major war-crimes suspects still at large. The arrest triggered violent protests by hard-line nationalists who tried...