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...league.”Throughout his prospective record-breaking 2006 campaign, Dawson will take what he calls “more small steps” to increase his chances of reaching the NFL.Having already run for some scouts, next season he must continue to impress as agents and scouts roam the sidelines, scrutinizing his every step to assess his potential.Whether or not the team representatives see his promise, Dawson says that he will play professional ball post-graduation. And if all goes as planned, his career will begin with an NFL squad.—Staff writer Madeleine I. Shapiro...
...Marie-Louise Fort, mayor of Sens - where one-third of the town's 38,000 population lives in public housing. "The ills of the banlieue are French ills." It's in the projects themselves that the symptoms are the most severe. In Sens' Champs Plaisants project, school-age youths roam the tenements or fake calls on street-side phone booths while working as scouts for local drug dealers. "Dealers pay kids between €20 and €30 per 15 minutes to keep a watch for police patrols or strangers in the area," says Fort, who, like many municipal officials...
...fighting that followed, the students gained their rallying cause?and the overnight sympathy of much of France. Alarmed, Premier Georges Pompidou, acting as [President Charles] De Gaulle's regent while the general was off on an ill-timed state visit to Rumania, called off the police, let the students roam freely through the Latin Quarter. Then the lesson of the Left Bank dawned on the leadership of France's workers: that a few thousand students had forced the Gaullist regime to back down. Within hours, a spontaneous reaction swept all across France...
...according to a TIME poll, only 37% say Bush has been truthful in describing the situation in Iraq, and 55% believe it is worse than Bush claims. Even White House officials acknowledge that the U.S. has lost control of swaths of Iraq, including parts of the capital, where insurgents roam with near impunity. While Allawi says 15 of 18 provinces are controlled by forces friendly to the new Iraqi government, that grip is shaky in Sunni areas. Even in the relatively subdued Shi'ite south, coalition forces and their Iraqi recruits face daily harassment from militants loyal to rebel cleric...
...conflict. What they have to say won't necessarily bolster hopes that Iraq can avoid all-out civil war indefinitely. But few militia members interviewed by TIME believe that they are fighting one now. Their assessments largely accord with those of U.S. military intelligence: that while rival death squads roam unchecked, for now civil war is in no one's interest but al-Zarqawi's. Militants on both sides say U.S. forces remain a bigger enemy than their countrymen. "The elements for civil war are all there," says a senior U.S. military-intelligence officer, "but this society is complex...