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...talk: he once said criminal elements should be cleaned out with an "industrial power hose." Just days before the mayhem ignited, he went into a troubled banlieue and slammed rebellious youths as "scum"--which some protesters say stoked their anger. The rioting "is going to go on until they pull Sarkozy out of office," says K-Soc, 19, in Bobigny. "He heats things up and then leaves us here to deal with the police." But backlash against the violence is rising among the residents of the banlieues, who marched in silence through their charred neighborhoods on Saturday in a call...
...daily pressure to create a winning race car that caused Stewart to pull himself over for a psychological pit stop. "I decided, 'I'm just going to up and go home,'" he said. It wasn't that Stewart disliked Charlotte (memo to Chamber of Commerce: he's still got a place there). It's that he just couldn't get away from the shop, which was only about 15 minutes from his house. So now Stewart spends time between races with his buddies, fishing or riding four-wheelers through the woods. "To be able to maintain a competitive edge...
Arthur Golden's 1997 best seller, Memoirs of a Geisha, enticed readers with its authoritative evocation of an alien, exotic world, one in which women served men less with sexual favors than by creating a simulacrum of the feminine ideal. But the book's real pull was its take on the Cinderella story, with Sayuri as the young heroine, Mameha as the fairy godmother, Hatsumomo as the evil stepmother and the Chairman, a powerful client of the geishas, as Sayuri's prince charming...
...forced the deciding fifth game.“It’s frustrating because we completely dominated [Columbia] in the beginning,” Blotky said. “To see that we’re capable of doing that, and then not being able to pull out the match, that’s just frustrating.”CORNELL 3, HARVARD 0It was David and Goliath again, but this time, Goliath made sure that the underdog had no chance.Though the Crimson took a game from the undefeated Big Red the last time the two teams met, Cornell thoroughly suffocated...
...UC—a smashing success by all accounts. Perhaps better support from University Hall is the answer. At other schools across the nation, university administrations themselves fund upwards of $100,000 for concerts for the student body, and as the Harvard State Fair demonstrated, University Hall can successfully pull off large events. These are important options that need to be fully explored before we embark on another event of this scale.While we commend members of the HCC for their marathon effort, we must not accept this as “business as usual?...