Word: roundup
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...what made the weekend roundup different is that this time the targets were "hostile foreign elements", as the Vietnamese government describes overseas activists - including two U.S. citizens, a Frenchwoman and a Thai national. As of Tuesday, there was no official word on what crime they are accused of; Vietnamese authorities refused to discuss the arrests...
...stadiums from Turin to Taranto - for years I got to know this Italian version of the hooligan (dubbed Ultra) while covering the Serie A league for the Associated Press seven years ago. Even when it didn't make the headlines, virtually every week we would file an "Italian Violence Roundup" alongside the coverage of the games. There were also spot stories to file on racist chants and anti-Semitic banners in stadiums. An in-depth report on the ills of the Italian game also included a visit in southern Rome to Lazio fan headquarters, adorned with Fascist-era Celtic crosses...
Halftime: The gory stats roundup: Harvard has made 10-of-20 free throws. It has 12 turnovers and is getting out-rebounded, 27-11. Stanford is 24-of-40 from the floor, including 7-of-11 from deep. To make matters worse, there was just a weird singing performance by a 12-year-old girl in a short black dress...
...some members of Burma's own oppressive security forces, remain unconvinced. On Monday evening, a 26-year-old member of the plainclothes security apparatus knelt to pay a final homage to the Buddha at Shwedagon before fleeing for the Thai border. The officer had taken part in the nighttime roundup of monks, and it still weighed heavily on his conscience. "I have had enough. I have to leave," he said as he rose from his knees and started his journey to the border. Still, the nightly roundup of suspects continues under the darkness of a 10 p.m. curfew. One source...
Small, high-quality producers and foraged native foods are also the driving passion of Finnish chef Markus Maulavirta of Restaurant Ilmatar in the stylish Klaus K hotel in Helsinki. He even owns a patch of Arctic swamp to pick his own cloudberries and joins an annual wild-reindeer roundup in Lapland. For his 50th birthday, the chef spent 12 days biking the entire length of Finland, savoring every mile of the journey. His menu is an ode to the land, its traditions and its caretakers, featuring items like bread made from birch-bark flour, and sauna-cured ham from pigs...