As the rap impresario Sean Combs glared and scowled, a Manhattan prosecutor yesterday accused him of sparking a December shooting at a Times Square night club.
The Wright clip, which became a staple on television and the Internet last month, sparked a firestorm of controversy and prompted Mr. Obama to deliver a major address on race relations.
The fatal police shooting of unarmed black man Walter Scott last April and a white supremacist's massacre of nine black churchgoers in June sparked a series of protests over systemic racial discrimination.
It is the second such action since the police shooting of a 15-year-old boy in December sparked a rash of riots and uncorked labor unrest over the country's sharp economic downturn.
The attacks in September sparked a burst of long-form excellence, and The New Yorker, Esquire, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic and Harper's are packed with wondrous, where-did-they-get-that insights into the human condition.
That is where the bad news ends, at least for now, and the good news begins, because a 3-1 win against their Galician neighbors in March sparked a run of results which has seen Deportivo navigate out of the bottom three.
Petersen's appointment as Glamorgan captain in November sparked a winter of discontent at the club which led to the resignation of three key figures, including the displaced skipper Jamie Dalrymple.
Lin's ascent from Harvard-schooled benchwarmer flopping on his brother's couch, to leading scorer and pop culture phenom in February sparked a rush of applications to trademark "Linsanity".
By Pamella Sittoni NAIROBI, Kenya, 16 January, 2008 – An estimated 250,000 Kenyans remain displaced following civil unrest that began shortly after the announcement of national election results on 27 December sparked a wave of rioting in the capital and other areas.
See articleTrouble persisted on the streets of towns in Tunisia, where the immolation in public of an unemployed youth in December, followed by his death on January 4th, sparked a wave of protests against joblessness, inequality and corruption at the top.
