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...delays. Glassy-eyed passengers can spend days huddled in dimly lit waiting rooms called, with spectacular aptness, "accumulators." Last summer, after enduring four stuporous days stranded in Moscow's Vnukovo airport, 350 passengers stormed the runway in an attempt to force a plane to take them home. Riot police were called in, and three people were injured...
...their best to make a bad situation better. The job of feeding 1,600 people three times a day is a daunting task. When one considers the physical layout of the Union, which funnels a long line of students into a tiny antechamber, the danger of a large-scale riot seems real...
...least one parent knew enough Harvard history to make comparisons with past demonstrations. From the so-called Diploma riot of 1961 to the student for a democratic Society (SDS) sit-in at University Hall in the spring of 1969, David Wizansky '60, father of Sasha R. Wizansky '95, knows his Harvard protests...
...faith; one woman holds an ailing child and prays for him to be healed. While Emma prays to the Madonna for a rebirth of their love, Marcello stands at the site merely as a reporter, an observer. As night falls, rain comes down and mayhem ensues. People begin to riot, tearing branch by branch the tree where the Madonna was seen, and the little boy dies. The morning reveals the world as emptier than before...
Take, for example, the 1992 killing of seven year-old Gavin Cato in Crown Heights. The crime was a traffic accident; a car driven by a Hasidic Jew spun out of control, running onto the sidewalk and killing Cato, who was Black. Blacks then rioted for three days in Crown Heights. After the unrest had been quelled, Sharpton planned a protest march through Crown Heights, much to the dismay of Mayor David Dinkins, who feared that the demonstration would erupt into another riot. The rally proceeded without incident, primarily because the marchers were outnumbered by police officers. Sharpton made...