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...Minister of Employment, Social Cohesion and Housing, Jean-Louis Borloo. "When you have all of society's difficulties, failings and hardships so concentrated in the same places, you need an audacious, comprehensive plan to address them all," says Borloo, who began devising and implementing his multipronged strategy for the suburbs over three years before the first cars were torched in Clichy-sous-Bois on the edge of Paris. "What we're doing is massive: attacking decades-old problems in housing, unemployment, education, exclusion - you name it!" adds the Minister. Borloo calls his policy package a "Marshall Plan for the banlieues...
...Rumsfeld was 9, living in a Chicago suburb, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The days and nights that followed molded Rumsfeld as he came of age, especially after his father put his real-estate career on hold to join the Navy and fight in the Pacific. "In World War II there were suicide pilots flying their aircraft into our ships," the Secretary told guests at an awards dinner last year. "Today a new enemy is seeking global power and has flown our own airliners into our buildings on suicide missions...
...home, the U.S. flexed its great muscles, put everyone to work, paid them more money, built them more and better houses, more and fancier cars (see BUSINESS IN 1952). Its enterprising suburb builders raised up almost overnight a new Levittown beside the Delaware River, bigger at birth than the pre-Revolutionary Pennsylvania cities of York and Lancaster. Its patient medical researchers found drugs that gave promise of conquering TB and polio. Its impatient newspaper readers doused themselves inside & out with another wonder drug, chlorophyll, and followed the Wars of the Roses-Eleanor and Billy...
...their kitchen years after the eviction, they told me, a freshman at Harvard who had grown up in an upper-middle class suburb, how a poorly regulated system of eviction storage had forced them to pay thousands of dollars in arbitrary price increases, and ultimately allowed most of their belongings to be destroyed without compensation. More importantly, they told me how a public policy issue that before had seemed abstract and theoretical had actually had a very real impact on their lives...
...normal reaction. Here, something is wrong. There's no movement coming up from below. There is a profound lack of faith in everything. We are almost just resigned, which is a terrible thing for an entire generation under 30. Rashid Ech Chetouani 27, lives in the Paris suburb Asnières; started a business importing memory sticks from Guangzhou, China Most of these demonstrating students will have no problem getting a job eventually. It's we in the banlieues who have problems. We are looking to work just for one day, two months, anything. We just want to work...