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The WP lead details much local ferment about the way the Seattle police handled the anti-WTO demonstrators and the NYT inside has an excellent up-close on some of the self-proclaimed anarchists thought to have been responsible for much of the violence and destruction on Seattle's streets.
The Age of Enlightenment engendered a new cultural ferment.
Lee tried to choose objects that demonstrated innovation and experimentation; he has a particular interest in the relationship between technological advances--in ceramic and bronze production, for example--and creative ferment.
Protest against overcrowding, antiquated teaching, bureaucracy, and the very basis of the social system made the Sorbonne a focal point for unrest in 1968, a year of ferment throughout Europe.
The paper quotes a confidant of the as yet undeclared candidate in summing up the ferment: "the fires are burning as hot as the sun . . . it's saddle up and ride."