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Perhaps because victories come so rarely, they seem to unhinge the residents of Detroit. When the Tigers won the World Series in 1984, more than 100,000 fans ran deliriously into the streets, burning cars and looting shops. Each Halloween provides another excuse for Detroiters to vent high spirits, leaving extensive property damage in their wake. Last week, after the Pistons won a second straight professional-basketball championship, success once again proved more than Detroit could safely handle. In a long night of celebrations punctuated by gunfire, eight people were killed...
...head by some guys from "Colonia Watts." Henry was hanging out on the next street, heard the shots and ran over to find the boy sprawled on the street, his blood seeping onto the concrete. "I was mad, everybody was." Henry didn't get a chance to vent his anger until much later, for a different shooting by a different gang. After Florencia gang members shot a Grape Street member in the leg, the Grape Street gang had a meeting, and Henry and two other friends volunteered for the mission. "I wanted to do it," he says...
...Davis wanted to vent his anger at the Social Studies committee or express his heartfelt disdain for The Crimson and its decision to print the leaked Patterson memo, he should have done...
...Administration's German policy is the most nuanced of all. The Bush- Baker approach was reflected in their refusal to bash Helmut Kohl publicly for failing to declare the German-Polish border inviolate. As other Western leaders held press conferences to vent their spleen on the border issue, Washington urged privately that Kohl's coalition partners bear the burden of turning the Chancellor around, a result accomplished last week...
...deforestation crisis (chop corn, not trees), the safety crisis (corn isn't dangerous, and you can put this stove flush against a wall -- or even sit on it -- because the housing doesn't get hot) and the chimney crisis (Dove-Tech doesn't need one; you can vent it the same as you would a dryer, or hook it in to your existing ductwork...