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...highest murder rate, per capita, in the nation. There were seven unrelated killings in one recent four-day stretch, including four on April 2. National Guard troops and state police have been patrolling city streets since last June. But there appears to be little law enforcement can do to quell the violence, much of which is attributed to turf battles among drug gangs...
That infusion of U.S. money would go far toward developing a region nearly devoid of civil infrastructure. There's no doubt that in the long run, schools, hospitals, roads and electricity would do much more to quell militancy than would an increased military presence. But that kind of development takes years. As the militants consolidate power, Musharraf needs to take bolder steps. The judicial crisis and the resulting protests have weakened Musharraf's credibility among the moderate, secular Pakistanis who could provide a bulwark against the threat of jihadism. Musharraf has pledged to hold general elections...
...early 1940s had catered to an excited, militant public. In the 1950s, that action was replaced by the tranquility of the homestead amid fears of nuclear war. Only a miracle, such as the voice of God in “The Next Voice You Hear,” could quell those fears, Hoberman said. Hollywood also found itself on the defensive from a religious revival that was fueled by those same fears. The movie industry, however, viewed its films as breaking the monotony and repetitiveness of the lives of Americans, Hoberman said...
...virtue of such an approach. The renewed focus by the RIAA on college administrators represents a desperate maneuver and an evasion of more practical, broader solutions that embrace Internet sharing and rethink rights management issues. People steal music, and bringing charges against a handful of arbitrary culprits will never quell the larger issue. The RIAA should respect the rights of universities as they clamor about their...
...Popular discontent in Russia rises along with prices and utility rates. And in the absence of legitimate expression, it pours out into the street, where protests are met with clubs and smoke grenades of the riot police. Two years ago, the authorities spent $12 billion to quell a nationwide wave of protests, caused by abrupt canceling of social benefits, in order to prevent the dissent from growing into conspicuous melees in main cities like the one this weekend. But the money doled out then has been now superseded by the growing costs of life. And a new such massive financial...