So a few nights ago I packed my eighty-pound collie, Harley, into the backseat of the car and drove to the lagoon at Evanston's Dawes Park, where we joined a respectably but not oppressively large crowd of revelers (including a sizable canine contingent) for an hour of Mucca Pazza.
Zimbabwean police officers and soldiers detained a contingent of American diplomats for five hours on Thursday at a roadblock, slashing the tires of their vehicle after a six-mile chase.
A couple of hours later, the mobs were gone and two army trucks and a small contingent of soldiers guarded the villa.
The issue involving the United Nations is a videotape made by peacekeepers, a contingent of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, some 18 hours after the Israelis were seized.
At the airport, a rebel caravan of pick-ups and SUVs swept past Colonel Dave Berger, the marine commander.The colonel had been on the ground only a few hours, with his first contingent of 150 marines.
A huge contingent of heavily armed police stands guard, 24 hours a day, outside the Musa, Sakina and Swafaa mosques.
But Dickey, who was soon ambling off the field, tipping his cap to the large contingent of Mets fans after two and a half hours of virtuosity, probably did not mind.
It came just 24 hours after the arrival of first contingent of multinational troops, sent by the United Nations Security Council to restore security to Bunia.
