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Some observers criticized the police response to the riots as sympathetic to the mobs or lax. In a throng surrounding a Carrefour megastore in an upscale neighborhood of Buenos Aires, a woman told TIME that police officers were encouraging people to head for the store. But when demonstrators marched on government buildings and set fires outside the Presidential Palace and on the ground floor of the Economy Ministry building, police fired rubber bullets and tear gas into the crowd...
Desperate for space and phone lines, Giuliani and his throng of commissioners and aides move around noon to the police academy, on East 20th Street, where they will remain for the next three days...
...power. In more than one case, supporters faced down Arafat's police when they came to make arrests. Neighbors in Bethlehem's Deheisha refugee camp spat at Palestinian Authority troops who tried to pick up Issa Marzook, a Hamas activist and correspondent for Hizballah TV, as a throng ganged around them shouting "Spies! Collaborators! Dogs!" The police retreated without Marzook. Says an Arafat aide: "Hamas is a political power and not a security threat only." Hamas officials voice their defiance. "Arafat is the chairman, but we shall not follow his orders," Abu Marzook told TIME at his office...
...wasn’t. Harvard successfully closed out the game, and at the end of the fourth quarter, I saw a sight that I had never seen before at Harvard: a screaming throng of fans charging the field with their arms raised in victory and their eyes brimming with pride...
sight that I had never seen before at Harvarda screaming throng of fans charging the field with their arms raised in victory and their eyes brimming with pride and exhiliratoin. And instead of skeptically dismissing those fans and predicting that the Crimson’s next game would result in a painful, heartbreaking loss, I found myself grinning in anticipation of the next Game...