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...Angeles police in riot gear swung batons and fired foam-rubber bullets at peaceful demonstrators, working journalists and a small group of agitators in MacArthur Park, Chief William Bratton was basically awaiting a rubber stamp on his application for reappointment...
...anti-Jewish riot. Pretty common in 19th century Eastern Europe. CLOONEY: [Jokingly] You guys got a long memory. Jeez. DAMON: Uh, anyway, I don't think anybody in this room is in a position to accuse Pacino of a hoo-ah! moment, especially in this movie, with some of the performances we turn in. PITT: Hard to say somebody else is chewing scenery when you're wearing a fake nose. DAMON: Yeah, I think Al was over the top! CLOONEY: Our motto is, Less is nothing...
...occasions, we were joined by former Dean of Students, Archie C. Epps III, and Senior Admissions Officer, David L. Evans. Invariably, Gomes would joke that, “we must be very cautious now. There are four of us standing here, and to many that means a race riot is about to take place. We can expect the police to be here any moment.” To this we would always laugh uproariously, but perhaps, a little uncomfortably. I believe that we have come a long way since then, but we still have a ways...
...Sufism has deep roots in Sudanese culture, and its influence is strikingly at odds with the oppressive Islamist political ideology that has long fueled conflict here. In the early 1990s, Sudan counted itself among the most rigid Islamist governments in the world: Riot police tear-gassed overly festive wedding parties, and the regime's determination to impose its harsh version of sharia law on the more Christian South helped to drag out the war. Its chief ideologue, Hassan al-Turabi, notoriously helped to radicalize Osama bin Laden during his years living in Khartoum...
...last Saturday that the independence-leaning administration of President Chen Shui-bian executed the coup de grace. In an iconoclastic ceremony that took place under the protection of riot police, Chen officially changed the name of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, a massive blue-and-white monument occupying a swathe of central Taipei, to the National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall. Inside, a new exhibition to commemorate Taiwan's democracy movement, entitled "Goodbye, President Chiang," was being prepared for unveiling. Outside, scuffles took place between police and several hundred protesters loyal to Chiang's memory...