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...Checkpoints. Mobs. Lately, Sydneysiders have been grappling with scenes that few ever imagined would occur in their city. Though they're arguing about when the trouble started brewing and why, there can be no doubt when it erupted. On the morning of Sunday, Dec. 11, a crowd of some 5,000 people - overwhelmingly young men - gathered near Cronulla beach. Most had responded either to a mass-circulated text message that called on "Aussies" to reclaim their beaches from "wogs" and "Lebs," or to enthusiastic publicizing of the event by tabloid media. Among the less offensive slogans scrawled on bare chests...
...Crash The Los Angeles car culture comes to a series of screeching interrelated halts as various forms of vehicular unpleasantness occur at every socio-economic level of the city. Show folks, politicians, criminals, and, yes, the cops who have to untangle the messes the make, work out their fates. To say that Paul Haggis's film is multi-layered understates the case. But there is great clarity in his direction, shrewd observation in the screenplay (which he wrote with Robert Moresco and rafts of terrific acting-most notably by Matt Dillon as a racist cop who becomes the reluctant hero...
...single improvement can address all of the shortcomings of student advising at Harvard. The College must make a serious and concerted effort to introduce a series of changes that will provide practical and effective solutions to this perennial problem, and we fully expect that such a process will occur under the capable leadership of Dean Rinere...
...businesses and services that require this number, instead of inconveniencing the individual consumers who are required to provide it. Such measures will more successfully reduce the misuse of SSN’s without depriving international students of a crucial identification number to function in this country.However, these transformations cannot occur overnight. Most people living in the United States already have SSN’s, and the SSN has become too customary to expect an immediate decrease in its use. Although efforts should be made to winnow out the overuse of SSNs, in the mean time, the SSA should resume issuing...
...What's been happening these past 10 days is a finale to scores of small incidents that occur in all large cities when aggrieved young men gather at swimming pools and beaches, in car parks, nightclubs and at football games. It's not a clash of religions, civilizations or even ideologies. They may dress or have their hair cut differently, but the combatants are pea brains in a pod: Australian-born, idle and stunted. They're spectators in the new economy, and the rise of the smart worker has left them smelling like losers...