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...times Buford's mesmerizing account borders on the Dave Barry-esque. "Looking around me," he recalls as the lads of Manchester United's feared Red Brigade run riot in the unsuspecting Italian city of Turin, "I realized that I was no longer surrounded by raving, hysterically nationalistic social deviants; I was now surrounded by raving, hysterically nationalistic social deviants in a frenzy." But even black humor bows out as Buford's tale of unrelenting, mindless violence and moronic patriotism unfolds, and the "lad culture" with its bloated code of maleness centered on the Saturday rite of soccer is revealed...
Mather House, the riot-proof high rise designed in 1968, is color-coded according to function. Reddish brown means living space, while white indicates public space or structural support. As if that coding wasn't sterile enough, architects designed Mather's inner passages to look suspiciously like a rat maze...
...Reiner report, gang members commit six times as many crimes as people from similar backgrounds who do not belong to gangs. "Each one is a mini crime wave, and together they are a major crime wave," says Reiner. Opinions vary on what role gangs played in the riots, but there is no doubt that they were involved. Several gang members have been charged in the near fatal beating of truck driver Reginald Denny. Last week 22 suspected members of a West L.A. gang were arrested on charges of looting an estimated $80,000 worth of high- tech equipment from...
Baker would provide something Bush has lacked since John Sununu departed last December: a high-level bad cop who can keep the troops in line and sometimes read the riot act to Bush himself. Bush's aversion to conflict makes him a congenial fellow, which is a recipe for failure in a presidential campaign. Yet Bush resents having to ask Baker to bail him out one more time, / and the Secretary has long since grown tired of coming to the rescue. Bush's aides concede there is little they an do during the next six weeks to break Perot...
People from damaged homes can be quick to empathize with others' suffering and try to do something about it. Clinton's friend Carolyn Staley has often told how, when she visited him at Georgetown, he delivered food to a church in the Washington riot area after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. A less well-known incident from the same time comes from a fellow student, Neil Grimaldi, who had begun a service to help feed and house alcoholics. Clinton | went to the shelters and impressed Grimaldi with his sympathy for the alcoholics. He even played his saxophone to break...