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Roughnecks. The "volunteers" also menaced foreign correspondents and diplomats who had turned out for the show. Christopher Wren of the New York Times had his camera shoved into his face, painfully chipping a tooth; then two roughnecks held his arms while an other punched him in the stomach. Other reporters, including Lynne Olson of the Associated Press and Michael Parks of the Baltimore Sun, got similar treatment when they came to Wren's aid. While all this was going on, uniformed militiamen and KGB (secret police) agents stood by or took pictures. When the hour-long fracas was over...
...July 11, a black man named Clarence Anderson was chased on his motorcycle by two white police officers from Cambridge to Malden and then allegedly punched and kicked by the officers. Anderson suffered a serious injury to his right eye and lost a tooth in the alleged beating. On July 31, a Third District Court judge found Anderson guilty of failing to stop for a uniformed police officer and for operating a motor vehicle in a manner that would endanger the lives of others...
...realize that natural food people may be appalled by this confectionery confession, but deep in their granola souls lies some remembrance of refined sugared things past. But no more of this sweet tooth's wanderings...
Both the Bible and the Koran make sternly clear the manner in which injury is to be avenged. "Thou shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth," says the Book of Exodus. In Sura II of the Koran the Prophet advises: "O believers, prescribed for you is retaliation touching the slain; freeman for freeman, slave for slave, female for female." Unfortunately for the Middle East, this sense of bitter, retaliatory justice persists to the present...
...intelligence, creepeth into Councels." Indeed, the tonnage figure is conservative. Much more was taken than the clerks recorded. And for centuries, at home as well as abroad, all was destroyed. Until quite recently, Raleigh's "Indian Golde" was still being sold under the counter to Panamanian dentists for tooth fillings. The passage from tomb to melting pot did not really end until, in the 1950s, Colombian and Costa Rican pilferers began to realize that the value of ancient gold on the art market was much greater than even its worth as metal...