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...city hall of Bobigny, a rough town on the northeastern outskirts of Paris, a circle of fire marked where a trash container had been set alight to provoke a police patrol. "People mix it up with the police every day around here," says Spion, 19, who is of Moroccan origin. But this is different, says his friend Benou, whose parents came from Algeria. "This is May 1968--but in the banlieues...
...spark for last week's chaos came on Oct. 27, with the deaths of two teenagers from the jumble of apartment blocks that make up Clichy-sous-Bois. Bouna Traore, 15, of Malian origin, and Zyed Benna, 17, whose parents are Tunisian, thought they were being chased by police. When they took refuge with a third teenager in the relay station of a high-voltage transformer, Traore and Benna were electrocuted. Locals blamed overzealous policing for the deaths, although an official inquiry late last week found that there had been no pursuit. That evening an angry group demonstrated in front...
When Meow Yee joined IBM in 1985, she did not receive a mentor, nor was she offered one over the next 20 years. Born in Malaysia and of Chinese origin, Yee was hired as a software developer and advanced to design in-house applications for IBM in Somers, N.Y. But like many other Asians, she felt stuck on a technology track. "There's this perception that technology is what we're good for," she says. "Opportunities are not really given unless you ask for them, and if you're a woman, I guess that's double." She worked hard...
...just voted in Italy's center-left coalition primary, died minutes later at the same Locri hospital where he had once worked. The callous nature of the murder marked it unmistakably as a professional hit by Calabria's powerful crime syndicate, the 'Ndrangheta, a word of Greek origin meaning courage or loyalty. The message was just as clear: We're in charge here. The gangland execution of the respected Vice President of the Regional Assembly as he cast his vote was a warning that no one is safe, particularly not politicians like Fortugno who might have ideas about changing...
Perhaps this scene is the director’s acknowledgement of the film’s theatrical origin and his attempt to incorporate images of the stage into film’s visual idiom vis-à-vis postmodern notions of meta-narrativity...