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...take the poor-old-England line of analysis. England lost her empire, so she gets frustrated from time to time, which filters down to the working classes, who vent the national rage by beating up on people. Or the unemployment argument: more than a million young Britons out of work, cruising for a battle they can win. In more general terms, these soccer riots might even be pinned on politics: the European Cup seen as Europe's latest intramural war. Or sex: Could the scene in Brussels be the re-enactment of the rape of Italy by a frothing, snorting...
...York City's Queens College, who assembles in Waiting an oral biography of South Africa's white community, the 16% minority that rules a nation at once divided and single-minded. Over the course of the book, Van der Merwe and more than 30 other Wyndal residents vent their passions, explain their prejudices and in effect deliver their own eulogies. "We lack (tribal ritual) so terribly in our society," laments Peter Cooke, an English farmer, in confessing his envy of a nonwhite childhood friend. "We have no order. We drift about. We are lost...
Atlanta Reporter Leslie Cauley, who talked to state police officials and judges in Georgia and South Carolina, learned last December how even a minor incident could affect her. Returning to her car one night, she found the window vent broken and the glove compartment rifled. Angry, she headed home. "I was on the interstate when it hit me. I started to shake as I considered what might have happened if I had come upon my thief. In my anger, what would I have done? And what, in his desperation, would he have done...
...Eastern Cape, one of South Africa's major industrial regions, was simmering. Police in armored vehicles patrolled black townships, while groups of black youths waited for a chance to vent their anger. Here and there, buildings smoldered, streets were barricaded. Less than a week earlier, 25 years to the day after the Sharpeville massacre of 69 black South Africans by security forces, the police had gunned down 19 black demonstrators near Uitenhage, 20 miles from Port Elizabeth, the Eastern Cape's largest city...
...Captain Joe Carrabino, who had spent most of the weekend playing as if he were underwater, finally emerged only to vent his frustration with a series of flutterkicks...