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...club had no sprinkler or audible fire-alarm systems. But the fire also complicated official expectations for crowd behavior: in the middle of a crisis, the basic tenets of civilization actually hold. People move in groups whenever possible. They tend to look out for one another, and they maintain hierarchies. "People die the same way they live," says disaster sociologist Lee Clarke, "with friends, loved ones and colleagues, in communities...
...President, Suleiman is expected to maintain the pliant role as a "cushion rather than a decisive player" to prevent the country from "exploding or falling apart," says Salem...
...quite equal. Its residents are U.S. citizens, and they do pay U.S. payroll taxes and receive Social Security benefits, but their sole representative in Congress has no voting power - and when it comes to presidential elections, they have no voting power either. Puerto Ricans narrowly voted to maintain the status quo in three non-binding plebiscites, most recently in 1998, but the status question is still the dividing line that dominates the island's politics...
...Race Relations estimated that 4.2 million people were living on $1 a day in 2005, up from 1.9 million in 1996, two years after the end of apartheid. On May 21, the institute castigated Mbeki's performance, listing crime, unemployment, education and corruption as key failures. "In failing to maintain the rule of law, the state had conditioned many poor communities to violent behavior," it said...
...Despite issuing them visas, the Moscow authorities were not about to give some 42,000 British soccer fans - a group who have, rightly or wrongly, earned a questionable record for maintaining public order - the keys to the city. Some some 15,000 policemen were deployed to maintain crowd control, while the Chelsea and United fans were segregated both from one another and, as far as possible. Their charter flights landed at different airports, and most were taken directly to separate fan stockades connected to the stadium by special galleries to prevent any mixing. Alcohol sales at the stadium were banned...