Word: riotings
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...loved their magazine and their movies and I really expected this to be a riot," he said said. "But it turns out that I'm funnier than most of these guys...
...career teachers in New York City say they never realized how difficult teaching could be until the first time they stared down a classroom of unruly kids who would rather badger a rookie instructor about her sex life than learn about George Washington. "At first it was like a riot every day. I had to call the dean and security just to get the class to calm down," says Gary Huddleston, a former lawyer from Houston who teaches science at a high school in Brooklyn. "I had no idea how demanding it would be." Sandra Feldman, president of the American...
...sell my old man on recent overlooked albums of genius, he'll spread the word throughout his generation. After years of campaigning for Sonic Youth, I was inordinately proud when their opus Daydream Nation turned up on his CD rack. And when he reacted positively to indie-pop-riot grrrl bands like Cadallaca, I had to crow, father-like, to my friends...
...most vocal of them gathered near the Navy Memorial, where some managed to hoist down the American flag and raise their own, a black rag. Blue-helmeted riot police responded with batons and pepper spray...
...went wrong? Eiland has one of the army's keenest analytical minds. He speaks almost entirely in neatly memorized lists, usually organized in fives. His clear, blue eyes don't blink as he runs through the army's mistakes. Foremost is Israel's failure to acquire nonlethal weapons for riot control. At riots on the edges of every Palestinian town, the army progresses quickly from tear gas to rubber-coated metal bullets to live ammunition--though Eiland says the last step comes only when a soldier feels his life is clearly in danger or when Palestinians open fire...