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...Angeles, says Ice-T, "only vindicated what I've been rapping about for years. I have been one of the voices from the 'hood trying to let you know what kids on the street are thinking." To him, the riots in the wake of the Rodney King verdict were predictable. "If you didn't expect the rebellion after such a miscarriage of justice, then it just shows how out of touch...
Food was terrible everywhere in the Pacific, Theroux discovered, although he was bemused by such oddities as omelets made from enormous eggs laid by the megapode birds of Savo in the Solomon Islands. (His verdict: "The yolkiest eggs I had ever seen.") To be sociable, the author occasionally took swigs of kava, the mouth- and mind-numbing intoxicant of the islands, which is made by chewing the root of a plant known as Piper methysticum and then mixing the blob with water. The best kava, connoisseurs assure him, comes from root masticated by pretty teenage girls...
...gang-banging right now, there'd still be crime." Strickland says gang members, like many other South Central residents, were outraged over the acquittal of the four L.A.P.D. officers tried for the videotaped beating of Rodney King. "They just kicked us right in the face with the Rodney King verdict," Strickland says. "And we wanted to voice our opinion in the only way we knew how, and that was to make some noise. It was the only way people would listen...
...discussions we expanded to the Houses after the Rodney King verdict and Los Angeles riots. Students also held a series of silent protests on the steps of Widener Library, and participated in marches in Boston...
...violence in South Central Los Angeles sparked by the Rodney King verdict left 52 dead and hundreds injured. Millions in property were burned or stolen. And, to make matters worse, gang members grabbed an additional 4000 guns in the melee--and suburbanites have purchased up to 300 percent more than before the riots...