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Handel said he phoned the MBTA police--a toll call--but his dime ran out before the officer could record the details of the assault...
There is an economic price too. After active duty, each Israeli male must serve four to six weeks of reserve duty every year until the age of 55 (unmarried women serve until 34). The obligation, in a nicely egalitarian way, affects everyone, but it exacts a toll. Shops slow down; restaurants stand half-empty as chefs depart; gaps must be filled on assembly lines. As former Chief of Staff Yigael Yadin once put it, "Every Israeli citizen is on eleven months' leave from the army...
...find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat." Some of Leto's decrees are variations on the Old Testament. Dune's religion, for example, outlaws computers as graven im ages of the mind. Throughout, his observations toll a somber truth: "Government is a shared myth. When the myth dies, the government dies...
...worst interracial rioting the country had ever experienced. Gangs of predominantly black West Indian youths hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails at hundreds of riot police. Waves of other youngsters took part in an orgy of burning and looting By the time a tense calm finally returned to Brixton, the toll of violence was stark: 149 police injured, one of whom remained unconscious days later; 58 civilians hurt; 120 buildings damaged, including nine that were completely destroyed; 47 stores looted; 224 people arrested. The total property damage was estimated to be as high as $4.4 million...
When the hurricane of violence ended after five brutal hours, the toll was heavy: 165 policemen injured-26 requiring hospitalization-along with scores of civilians. Nearly 100 rioters were arrested. Estimates of property damage ran to more than $2.2 million. Beyond the burnt buildings and ravaged streets twinkling with shards of glass from shattered storefront windows, however, London now bears a more lasting scar: the psychic damage from the worst race riot in British history, an ugly explosion reminiscent of the violence that tore apart dozens of American cities in the '60s and, only eleven months ago, left whole...