Word: tearful
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...smashing storefronts and setting fires to protest the fatal shooting of an unarmed African-American man by a white police officer on New Year's Day. The demonstrations turned to near riots as angry citizens confronted Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums on the steps of city hall. Police used tear gas to break up the crowds. Authorities are still deciding whether to file criminal charges against the officer, who has resigned...
...cycles through this scrapbook so quickly that there isn't time to dwell on any of the tunes, which range from Rihanna to Chris Brown to Madonna. But it works, because as MTV's now-defunct TRL learned long ago, pop songs are best consumed as catchy snippets. The tear-streaked rhythm is provided by Coldplay's syrupy "Vida La Vida"-a choice Earworm said he made because 2008's hit-makers were "less macho than in previous years...
...save Islam." She was also silent on the issue of prosecuting war crimes committed during the 1971 struggle. The symbolic low point came this fall, when several Islamist groups pulled down a memorial to the student movement near the airport - they called it "un-Islamic"- and threatened to tear down the Shahid Minar, a series of connected marble pillars that is Bangladesh's equivalent of the Statue of Liberty and the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial. Jamaat contested in 39 parliamentary seats but won only 2, down from 17 in the last polls. "It is amazing," says Sreeradha Datta, a research fellow...
...person march, and, using that group as cover, rushed police officers blocking off the street next to parliament. As the students pounded large wooden flagpoles against the shields of the riot police, the anarchist youth started throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at the cops, who responded with tear gas. At least one police officer was treated inside the halls of parliament, as the heart of government was turned into an impromptu medivac center. (See pictures of the Greek riots...
...Acropolis calling for "Resistance" across all of Europe. Black-hooded anarchists still storm banks and smash storefronts. For a couple of days, the intensity of the protests seemed to ebb but on Thursday, civil disobedience degenerated back into all-out civil disorder. With the "pop-pop" of launched tear gas canisters, Christmas shoppers and cafe customers who had finally returnd downtown were sent running for cover, while parents and grandparents yanked their kids off a winter carousel in Syntagma Square...