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...burned red. Crowds of stone throwers clashed with police, while shadowed figures hurled Molotov cocktails at cars and buses. The rioters were mostly Arab or black, but they were also mostly French, born and bred in the neighborhoods they were setting ablaze. Their anger spread in an arc across northern Paris, just a few miles from the city's glittering heart, as one desolate neighborhood after another joined in the mayhem. Thousands of police and firemen struggled to douse the rebellion and found themselves inflaming it. In one suburb, four shots, a rarity in France, were fired at the cops...
...number of attacks off Somalia has jumped from last year, when just two were reported, but that Somali pirates are becoming more aggressive and skillful. In the past, most of the attacks in the region were on fishing boats close to shore in the Gulf of Aden off northern Somalia. But over the past year or so pirates have moved south and have begun to strike at ships further out at sea. Until 2003, the International Maritime Bureau's Piracy Reporting Center in Kuala Lumpur recommended that ships stay at least 50 nautical miles from the Somali coast. Last year...
...brain's basement, where the crocodile lives, to the upper chambers may be the most impressive climb that humans attempt. In 1993 the traffic was heavy in both directions, from the world's lower brain to the upper, and back down again. Gestures of statesmanship, as lately in Northern Ireland, alternated with low-brain savageries: the lashing tribal wars of Bosnia, Somalia, Kashmir, Afghanistan, Angola, Burundi, Georgia, Nagorno-Karabakh . . . The list of conflicts went on and on, like a vicious geography lesson. The euphoria that had attended the fall of the Berlin Wall, the disintegration of communism...
...easy to see the appeal of the new laws. No one doubts that the police and intelligence agencies face a monstrous challenge. Penetrating terror organizations as formally structured as the i.r.a. was tough, even for Northern Ireland?born intelligence operatives; so much harder, then, for the average local police officer to discover the plans of ad-hoc teams of murderers like the men who bombed Madrid and London, and who hide among Muslim communities that are themselves relatively impenetrable. But frustrating as it might be to the authorities, the collective wisdom of our ancestors says that before...
...over Fordham on Saturday, the team erased the memories of what could have been a bad season. The team’s shaky regular season had been resuscitated with a two-game win streak two weekends ago, giving the Crimson (8-11) an easier first-round opponent at the Northern Championships. But the wins would have been wasted if Harvard was unable to pull out a win over the Rams in the first round. The win, driven by an offensive effort from six different scorers, earned the Crimson a spot at the next level of playoffs, the Eastern Championships. Easterns...