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...police encounters. Reports of racial profiling have taught many of us to be suspicious of cops. But if we act suspicious, cops notice. And when cops get scared--is that guy reaching for a wallet or his gun?--the whole process of distrust and fear can all too easily spiral into danger...
...series of northern English cities? All these explanations had their advocates. On the airwaves and on the streets, feelings were mixed - fury at the rioters, some anger at the police for weak tactics - but mostly fear that the city, already poor and sharply segregated, is on a downward spiral. Those who pick the bones of disaster were out in force. White gangs smashed a Pakistani-owned restaurant and service station. TV crews roamed the city seeking footage of more trouble. At Lister Park BMW, looted and charred, portable toilets arrived for the demolition crew. Harry Taylor, the general manager, wouldn...
...everything from Hamlet to Miss Saigon, clearly has found a way to make this role his own. For one thing, Pryce's professor is decidedly more energetic than Harrison's. He prances up a 6-m library ladder, dances over couches and chairs, and races up and down a spiral staircase, singing all the while. Yes he sings. The lyrics of such famous songs, mostly spoken by Harrison, like Why Can't a Woman Be More like a Man? and I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face are reborn with Pryce...
...Jewish Museum of Berlin, a shiny metal structure with zigzagging crevices on the façade that resemble a broken Star of David, opens with its permanent collection on Sept. 9. Meanwhile, starting June 17 in London's Hyde Park, Libeskind's shrunken, horizontal version of his proposed Spiral extension to the Victoria and Albert Museum will serve as a temporary café and lecture space adjoining the Serpentine Gallery...
...clear that the downward spiral of these animals was after the arrival of humans," said Linda Ayliffe of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, one of the researchers on the project...