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...months, the debate over opening up Mexico's petroleum industry to foreign companies raged in the streets. Thousands of riot police held back screaming protesters from invading the Senate. Mammoth rallies screamed that the president was a puppet, selling its nationalized oil wealth out to the gringos. Banner-bearing lawmakers opposed to the president's proposal camped with sleeping bags on the podium of Congress, shutting down the legislature for weeks, as the arguments went back and forth, for and against giving international oil giants the right to sink deep wells in Mexican territory and waters, long the sacrosanct monopoly...
...caused Griffith's death were harshly punished without the use of any hate-crimes law. And if the very existence of a hate-crimes law is meant to placate minorities so they don't riot - a rather condescending notion - wouldn't it also exacerbate the anger among those close to the perpetrator, who would then be serving a longer sentence because of things he said during the crime...
...York City. Upon arriving stateside, Sidney has several revelations: his new apartment still sits atop a Kebab Palace; working for the “glossy posse”—“Sharps” is based on Vanity Fair—isn’t the riot he expected; and co-worker Alison, played by Dunst, is really mean. Dunst and Pegg are like most wacky onscreen pairs who get off on the wrong foot; it becomes obvious within several barb-filled minutes that their relationship will end happily. Most of the movie manages...
...early morning of Oct. 7, a political standoff that has gripped Thailand for a month and a half erupted in a blaze of smoke. Riot police fired tear gas at the protesters gathered near parliament, and medical staff later reported that more than 100 people were injured. This included two protesters who had parts of their legs blown off by what police said were exploding tear gas canisters. A police spokesman said the action was taken to clear a road to parliament for cabinet members to attend Somchai's speech later in the day. A few days earlier...
...became suddenly famous for one of the funniest buildings of all time. The Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, which he co-designed with the British architect Richard Rogers, is a museum that's been disemboweled, its brightly colored ventilation tubes, pipes and escalator draped along the exterior in a riot of externalized intestines...