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With little else to do, many have turned to random -- and racially motivated -- violence. The national government counted 2,074 crimes motivated by hatred of foreigners in 1991, vs. only 246 in 1990. A Mozambican immigrant was thrown out of a trolley car to his death in Dresden; a Vietnamese was stabbed nearly to death in Leipzig; some Soviet children who survived the Chernobyl nuclear accident and were convalescing in a special children's home in Zittau, 150 miles south of Berlin, were assailed by a gang of stone-throwing drunks who shouted, "Jews...
...cost. Boosterism is almost a civic duty, with a Disneyesque tinge. The city's pitch for a National League baseball team included a promise to build not just a concrete mega-ballpark but an old-time, intimate "field." Orlando hopes to embrace mass transit, but an old- fashioned trolley line is getting priority over a modern elevated rail system. Orlando basketball games are not games but "theatrical productions," in the words of Magic manager Pat Williams. He spent more than a year searching for the fabric and color of the team's uniform. "Disney sets the tone for everything...
...according to schedule. Although the activists did lie down in front of the entrance to the school, as well as in the street and along the trolley tracks, police never made the anticipated arrests...
They are retirees, some of them, queueing politely at the information kiosk by the escalator to the T, the husbands and wives in identical plaid pants and name tags that say "Elderhostel." The highlight of their visit will be a tour of Cambridge in the Old Town Trolley, which is actually...
...resulting scuffle, 80 demonstrators were handcuffed, loaded into buses and taken to headquarters to be booked on misdemeanor charges. (They were all later released.) After the arrests, some of the remaining protesters staged a march down Market Street, one of San Francisco's main thoroughfares. The marchers stalled trolley buses in the middle of the street by pulling the vehicles' rooftop poles away from the overhead wires that supply the vehicles with electric power. Another group briefly occupied a cable car, jostling passengers and posting in the window a placard bearing the slogan SILENCE=DEATH. By week's end police...