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...state recently where not very many students come to Harvard,” Fitzsimmons says. “A number of people said, ‘Why should we even think about going up to that ridiculous cold weather with a bunch of elitist northern Yankees?’ And so forth and so on. ‘Why shouldn’t I just go to state university which is terrific and everybody has a wonderful time...
...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 straight day of rioting around Paris inspired similar unrest in the Blois projects - resulting...
...holder, Socialist Jack Lang in March 2001. Though Perruchot has also mounted urban renovation programs to improve public housing, and used tax exemptions to lure business and jobs out to the projects, he says he was elected on promises to restore order, by residents of the city center and northern banlieue alike. "I went out myself and was horrified to see to what degree the state had withdrawn, law had shrunk away, and the Republic had retreated from these areas," he recalls. "This isn't about authoritative provocation, but it is saying 'enough is enough. It's time...
...Perhaps, but Marie-Claude Vitali, a long-time resident of northern Blois who has worked for nearly 30 years to help locals help themselves, says the mutual accusation and disdain dividing French society from the banlieues must give way to common cause if future violence is to be avoided. "Thirty years of uninterrupted policy errors on integration must end with France accepting the various cultures that now exist within French society - including French-born people who aren't the immigrants their parents are, yet not culturally French either," says the ebullient Vitali. Inspired and driven teachers, more experienced cops...
Stanford’s rah-rah style tempted Kendrick, but ultimately Harvard pulled rank. Sometimes the best brand in the business just can’t be beat. Come September, Kendrick found herself moving into Canaday Hall on the northern tip of Harvard Yard, a newly minted member of the Class...