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...rocked Greece since the fatal police shooting of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, 15, on Dec. 6. No one is certain yet why the riots continue to flare up. And, on Thursday, the two youths approached by TIME were not providing any clues either. Asked to explain why they were waging their violent campaign against the police the pair answered with a brusque "No." A third youth in black didn't even acknowledge the question. The three then dashed to Panepistimiou Avenue where their peers were camped out, hiding from police, waiting to make their next move...
Many of your films deal with a significant amount of brutality. What's it like to explore violent characters? Frank Pennisi, BAYSIDE...
...Thailand Crisis Resolved--For Now Abhisit Vejjajiva, a 44-year-old British-born opposition leader, has become Prime Minister, after months of violent political upheaval and seven years of rule by former PM Thaksin Shinawatra (now in exile) and his party. Weeks after a Thai court dissolved the ruling party for fraud, parliament voted 235 to 198 in favor of Vejjajiva, the middle-class candidate, over a Thaksin loyalist supported by the rural poor...
Even as Greece awakened Monday to relative calm following eight days of rioting by outraged youths, French officials were moving to placate protesting students amid rising fears that violence could break out across France. Given the defiant nature of French student protests over the years - including weeks of violent demonstrations over a new youth labor contract in 2006 - concern is growing in France that the dismal economic outlook could push the current anti-reform protests into the kind of wild insurrection that has rocked Greece...
...That feeling could spread. Unlike the 2005 nationwide riots in France's blighted suburban housing projects, which horrified the nation, protesting French students are typically supported by their elders, who see them as idealists fighting for a better life. The specter of the current student movement turning violent in frustration - and being joined by other people frightened about their own future as recession closes in - is what Reynié and many other experts think was behind the government's decision to momentarily pull its education reform back...