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...banlieues, everyone in Blois seemed fully aware of the problem. "We have the second largest housing project population-per-total municipal population in France," comments Willy Spitz, president of the "Quartier Proximit?" association, whose 16 members pair off each night to patrol Blois's projects to defuse conflict situations. Roughly 18,000 of Blois's 51,000 total population reside in its 150 hectare "northern section" of projects, notes Spitz; internal tensions and feelings of injustice there have periodically boiled over since a first wave of violence in 1999. The most recent outbreak came Nov. 5-7, when the third...
...last fall that he intended to fire Kirby. The Crimson cited two sources, one a professor close to the central administration, and the other an individual in regular contact with members of the Corporation. According to the sources, the plan was put on indefinite hold after Summers’ conflict with the Faculty last spring...
...kind of public drama rarely heard of in the circumspect world of French politics, Sarkozy's wife Cecilia dumped him for another man last summer and is about to publish a tell-all book. "France is a conservative country," says political scientist Dominique Reyni�, "and Sarkozy causes conflict and perturbation at every turn." France may prefer its politicians decorous, its weekends long and its conflicts discreet. But after the shocking depredations of recent days, Sarkozy is betting that his compatriots are ready to get tough...
...dark music and experimental lyrics the same “new forms” that Konstantin attempts to construct in his plays and writings. It is a strikingly effective directorial decision, connecting modern viewers to the action and reinforcing through another medium the play’s pain and conflict...
...Speaking to a Jerusalem audience of American and Israeli intellectuals and policy-makers organized by the Brookings Institution Sunday night, Rice appealed for support resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by focusing on the human toll on both sides. ? Terrorists have claimed the lives of over one thousand innocent Israelis and injured thousands of others-men and women and children who simply wanted to enjoy a pizza or catch a bus or celebrate Passover,? she said. ?And the Palestinian people have suffered, too. They too have mourned the loss of innocent life. They too have been deprived of days that...