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DIED. JAMES F. BLAKE, 89, Montgomery, Ala., bus driver who ordered Rosa Parks to give up her seat to a white passenger on Dec. 1, 1955; in Montgomery. Parks' refusal and subsequent arrest led to the 1956 Supreme Court decision banning segregated transportation and helped spawn the civil rights movement...
Reading's hockey families see the Junta incident as an unfortunate encounter rather than the spawn of rink rage. "The vast majority of parents are doing this for the right reasons," says John Rattigan, a lawyer and father of three boys, all of whom play hockey at the Burbank arena. "We don't necessarily clap for the other side, but we try to be good sports." Rattigan, who does not know Junta or Costin, calls the fight "a very isolated, unusual, scary incident...
...much the better. The success of a movie like Shallow Hal would inevitably spawn more of its kind. And that would be an indignity—to the overweight, to the actors and to the movie-going public...
...nearly one-third of American women murdered each year are killed by their current or former partners, usually by their husbands. About one million women each year report being stalked. Law also stressed the plight of children witness to domestic violence in their homes, which can “spawn future legacies of violence in families across America...
...Vietnam War helped combine music with images. It?s hard to hear The Doors mournful song ?The End? and not think about the explosive, nightmarish opening images of Francis Ford Coppola's ?Apocalypse Now?. That war, and its aftermath, helped spawn a number of songs, from Marvin Gaye?s ?What?s Going On,? a plea for peace and understanding, to Bruce Springsteen?s ?Born in the U.S.A.,? which explored the pain and confusion of a returning war veteran: ?Got in a little hometown jam so they put a rifle in my hand/ Sent me off to a foreign land...