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...found a seat in the first row of the "colored" section in the back. But after a few stops, the driver ordered her to get up so a white passenger could sit down. Parks refused, and the police were called to take her to jail. Two hours after her arrest, she was released on $100 bail. By midnight, a plan had been hatched for a citywide bus boycott, which a young Baptist minister named Martin Luther King Jr. would later be elected to direct. The boycott lasted 381 days, until the Supreme Court ruled that segregation on buses was illegal...
...missed only a photo op. Last night three men won Oscars and still couldn't be there: Eminem (best song, from "8 Mile") because he's a shy person, Conrad Hall (cinematography, "Road to Perdition") because he is dead, and Polanski because there is an outstanding warrant for his arrest...
ASSASSINATED. ZORAN DJINDJIC, 50, reformist Prime Minister of Serbia who engineered the ouster--and transferral to a war-crimes tribunal--of dictator Slobodan Milosevic; by gunmen, in a parking lot outside his office in Belgrade, Serbia. Police arrested 40 people suspected of ties to the Zemun clan, an underworld syndicate led by ex-Milosevic associate Milorad Lukovic, whom Djindjic--under pressure to crack down on organized crime--was preparing to arrest. A political pragmatist, Djindjic once proudly asserted that "morals are for those who go to the monastery." With his fondness for Tony jewelry, fast cars and Armani suits, Djindjic...
World security might be enhanced if duct tape were used to arrest the inflammatory rhetoric flowing from the mouths of world politicians. ROBERT W. GRAHAM Fairview Park, Ohio...
...Wuhu, Charles was patrolling the waterfront when he saw a woman holding opium. Rather than arrest her, he let her go. That woman was Lily Chan. Lily, whose first husband had died in a Japanese bomb raid, was an aptly roguish match for Charles; she "walked like a hood," he says, and was a devout gambler. Soon Charles had a new family: Lily and her daughters, Yulan and Guilan...