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...from the city's glittering heart, as one desolate neighborhood after another joined in the mayhem. Thousands of police and firemen struggled to douse the rebellion and found themselves inflaming it. In one suburb, four shots, a rarity in France, were fired at the cops. French leaders tried to strike a balance between condemning the violence and seeking to understand it, but they seemed powerless to impose order on the streets. Above all, the rage expressed by alienated youths dealt a crushing blow to France's self-image as a model of tolerance and social equality. "It's like...
...Preparing for a pandemic is challenging because it is difficult to strike a balance between acting and overreacting. President Bush and the rest of the world's leaders need to rise above panic and politics. Like Gerald Ford in 1976, they can't be afraid to make the wrong choice for the right reasons...
...They probably weren't exaggerating. The waters off Somalia are right now some of the most dangerous in the world for sailors. Somalia's pirates used to be small fish compared to the bandits who strike in Asia's Malacca Straits and South China Sea. But over the past seven months, Somali pirates have attacked 25 vessels, including the Semlow in June, another ship carrying food aid in September, a Maltese-registered cargo ship carrying 15 tons of iron ore, and, just last weekend, a cruise ship with some 300 American and British holidaymakers aboard. (Though the pirates fired semiautomatic...
...collapsed a little bit. They made us shoot through them and get the pucks and rebounds, and we weren’t able to do it.” Meanwhile, the Bobcats went up 3-1 in the second period with a power-play score and then a quick strike off the draw. In the third period—after Dan Murphy finally connected on Harvard’s 10th man advantage, bringing the score to 3-2—Quinnipiac converted a 5-on-3 to regain its two-goal lead. “We didn?...
...graduate student union at New York University (NYU)—the only such union at a private university in the country—voted earlier this week to strike on Nov. 9 if the administration continues its refusal to participate in contract negotiations.The Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC)—which is affiliated with United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2110—has been without a contract since Aug. 31, when its original four-year agreement with NYU expired.Eighty-five percent of the members of GSOC voted in favor of setting the Nov. 9 strike deadline, according...