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...riots were brief but intense, featuring an unprecedented level of gun violence. And even as the fires died down, the underlying problems continued to boil. In the nation's poorest banlieues, where the residents are mostly black and Arab, jobless rates often near 40%. And Sarkozy has long been known as "the most hated man in the projects"--a reputation he earned before the last rioting, in 2005, when the then Interior Minister used racially charged language to denounce suburban thuggery...
Meet the American consumer of late 2007. Sure, he's worried. Apart from a brief blip after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the University of Michigan's much watched Index of Consumer Sentiment hasn't been this low since 1992. But buying stuff is what we Americans do. The last outright decline in consumer spending came in 1991, and that was shallow and short-lived. Most indications are that this year's Christmas shopping season will be, if not exactly a blowout, better than the last...
...photo album and the three-ring binder that holds all the diplomas and certificates he's earned. Here was the proof that his mother, Naile Ilazi, who never got past elementary school, had raised an ace student - and more. Dani had been a debate-team champion, traveled for brief stints on scholarships he'd won to study civics in the U.S., Slovenia and Bulgaria, and served two terms as high school class president. He'd also had a blast, working late nights in his teens at a local radio station and playing drums in a rock band...
After Darnton gave some brief historical background for each song, Delavault—“specially imported from Paris” as Darnton put it—revived the old tunes, accompanied by pianist and history and literature teaching fellow George H. Blaustein...
When John McCain speaks at a town hall, he makes a point of telling the audience that he's going to keep his opening remarks short. At an event in the packed town hall of New London, New Hampshire on Sunday, he explained he would be brief because he'd rather hear what voters have to say, "because that's the point of a town hall, not for me to stand up and talk and maybe answer a few planted questions...