Word: sprayings
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...splinters of glass from Seattle's vandalized Starbucks had been cleaned up. While their foes were busy checking real-time quotes for Intel and GE, the antiglobalists were swapping digital photos of police brutality, reading Noam Chomsky's essays on media brainwashing and posting tips on defending against pepper spray (wear a handkerchief soaked in vinegar). The irony of all this is stark, and possibly galling to the technocrats: the Web was supposed to be globalism's great tool, not a forum for its enemies. The Web was supposed to weld together markets into one enormous worldwide trading floor...
...Administration. Heavily armed uniformed federal agents swooped on the Miami home of Lazaro Gonzalez before dawn Saturday, battered down the door and wrenched a terrified Elian Gonzalez from the arms of his Miami relatives to reunite him with his father in Maryland. Although police and federal agents used pepper spray to keep some 100 demonstrators around the house at bay, the situation around the house quickly calmed down after the van carrying Elian left. Reno, who insisted immediately afterwards that the Miami relatives had left the government no option, had feared that a forced seizure might provoke a riot...
Police response escalated yesterday as some confrontational protesters were met with pepper spray and what many claimed was tear gas, but what police said were smoke bombs. There were also additional arrests...
Wilson's portrait captures her wearing a Radcliffe academic robe, leaning against a piano, with a bright spray of flowers over her right shoulder...
Women in the military? No problem with that [NATION, March 27]. Women as commanders? No problem with that either. Building a ship to accommodate gender equity? Makes sense. Extra ventilation "due to hair spray," along with extra outlets and mirrors "for hair and makeup"? Silly. WILL MARBLE Decatur...