WELCOME August 21, 2000 ISSUE

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Mary Metzner Trammell

Crowd violence is contagious, they say. It starts small and escalates the way it did that sultry summer afternoon in New York's Central Park, when some fifty women were molested by roving packs of men in a series of attacks after a parade. "It seems like what happened," a police supervisor said, "was the mob would do one bad thing, and then they would do something worse."

Of course, the US isn't the only place where hooligans (an Irish word for ruffians) sometimes take over. It happens in many countries and in many venues besides parades—at demonstrations, at football and soccer events, on college campuses, in areas where there's political unrest.

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