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...Chris Chambliss belted a game-winning home run, sparking bedlam in the Bronx. Thousands of delirious fans rushed the field, mobbing Chambliss as he ran the bases. Chambliss fled to safety before stepping on home plate, and, after police had finally cleared the diamond, emerged from the dugout to touch home only to find a fan had stolen it. "Where home plate had been imbedded, there was an empty bottle of Hiram Walker peach-flavored brandy," wrote The New York Times. "There was a bottle of blackberry brandy on second, a bottle of Dewar's on third...
...probusiness, pro-enterprise, noninterventionist and keen to cosset the rich, believing their wealth would trickle down into the wider economy. Brown also led the way for Britain to put in place a new governance system for financial services that he and other politicians like to refer to as "light-touch" regulation (although bankers and regulators cringe at that phrase; they prefer to call it "appropriate" regulation). In June 2007, just days before he replaced Tony Blair as Prime Minister, Brown gave a rousing speech at the traditional black-tie dinner in Mansion House, the residence of the Lord Mayor...
Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: Tourists—don’t touch John Harvard’s foot! Favorite childhood activity: Building forts...
...other with his hood flipped up like the evil Emperor from Star Wars - their interrogation was thwarted by the pair's insistence on giving thumbs-up and demanding "cuddles" from a congregation of admiring teenage girls (who, bafflingly, obliged). The officers' initial attempts at intimidation ("Did you touch his hat?" one constable said in a menacing reference to the police cap his colleague had rested on a railing against which the young men were leaning) dwindled to good-humored teasing: "This isn't a camera, mate, it's an ugly meter," an officer said as he took pictures. Eventually...
...There's a reason for the officers' light touch. For years, British policing has been restrained by the 1981 abolition of the "Sus Law" that had allowed police to stop and search citizens simply on suspicion of criminal intent. "Sus" sparked riots in several British cities, amid charges that it sanctioned racist harassment of young black men. But a surge of youth violence - violent offenses by perpetrators aged under 18 rose 37% in three years to 2006 - has prompted the government to once again beef up the discretionary powers of cops on the street. "Dispersal orders," for example, allow officers...