Word: sonly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...succeeded in getting the attention of cops, and they made two arrests on the scene. By Saturday, 16 men were in custody. They ranged in age from 16 to 33 and included a barber, a minister's son and a father of two. The melee was "an innocent water fight that got out of hand," one of them told the New York Times...
...opening of an apartment block. "Let's send guys up on the rooftops and shower [people] with leaflets," suggested a member. Not good enough, rejoined a frail girl: Spray the building with graffiti the night before! The mischievous atmosphere evaporated, however, when someone's mother called to say her son had been arrested. "It's the third time this month," said the girl. "We have to get him out." For Otpor, getting out of jail is becoming an increasingly necessary habit...
...King's travels help reconcile the monarchy with his father's ex-enemies. His symbolic first tour last year took him to the northern Rif mountains, where Hassan II once crushed a revolt and called tribesmen "dirty, ignorant beggars." Thousands turned out to cheer his son, who was practically moved to tears...
...unlike TV actors, VTV stars don't know what their "characters" will be like until the show airs. In 1973 the Loud family of California became the test rabbits for the genre when PBS filmed their lives--including the coming out of son Lance and the breakup of the parents' marriage--in the seminal cinema-verite documentary An American Family. The Louds were utterly unprepared to become national symbols of suburban angst. "My mom was very proud of the family she had raised," says Lance, now 49. "It ultimately crushed her how much of the show's emphasis...
...something bad happened in its course--a preventable atrocity, we eventually learn--and he is determined to raise his numerous progeny in peace and prosperity on his South Carolina plantation. In the state assembly he votes against raising troops and money for a war of independence. This alienates his son Gabriel (charmingly played by Heath Ledger), who joins the Continental Army. And it reckons without the relentless cruelty of Colonel William Tavington (whom Jason Isaacs plays with ferocious candor, offering neither excuses nor a single redeeming grace...