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...infuriated the Protestants. For three days, gangs of hooded men blocked roads and torched cars. On Wednesday 180 fires raged, and the commander of Belfast's fire brigade called it his department's busiest night since the Luftwaffe bombed the city in 1941. The following day, ruc Chief Constable Sir Hugh Annesley reversed his orders. Police began shoving Catholic protesters out of the way and escorting Orangemen down Garvaghy Road. Unionist marches unfolded across the province. When Catholic demonstrators tried to block them, the police went to work with their nightsticks. Running battles ensued, with petrol bombs from rioters...
...genuinely shy. Shy? A man who once made a speech dressed in a bunny suit? He admits he will do almost anything to advance his companies. It's an act that plays well, and compared with the standard model overstuffed British executive--well, the comparison just isn't fair. Sir David Frost, the transatlantic television personality and partner in Virgin Radio, says, "Richard has always presented himself as a rebel against the Establishment, although now he is an establishment...
...products of science shape and pervade our lives. Sir Francis Bacon made this point in 1620. "Printing, gunpowder, and the magnet," he wrote, "have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world...no empire, no sect, no star seems to have exerted greater power and influence in human affairs." Modern equivalents are legion: consider e-mail, nuclear weapons, biotechnology...
...campuses across the nation, student groups--through a combination of rallies, hunger strikes and sir-ins--have succeeded in convincing administrations to implement ethnic studies curricula...
...which Sir Edmund Hillary, now retired in New Zealand, added, "I have a feeling that people have been getting just a little bit too casual with Mount Everest. This incident will bring them to regard it rather more seriously...