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Gorbachev’s lecture on Tuesday, entitled “Overcoming Nuclear Danger,” will come on the eve of a Harvard conference on eliminating nuclear weapons...
...local youths were killed during a traffic accident with a police car. After two nights of considerable disorder that left around 80 police injured (versus 200 for the entire three weeks of rioting in 2005), a massive deployment of riot officers helped bring near order to the area Tuesday evening. Limited skirmishes were in stark contrast to the pitched battles, arson and even gunshots that rioters inflicted on police during the previous two evenings. Fear that unrest would spread to similarly disgruntled residents of blighted French projects - as it did in 2005 - waned, meanwhile, when youths who had torched cars...
...Though the risk of continued or spreading violence remained, sociologists and security experts said they believed the significant dip in violence Tuesday night considerably lowered the risk of contagion - at least till the next time. French government officials aren't taking any chances on a possible resurgence in Villiers-le-Bel. French Interior Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie, for example, saluted the "calmed situation," but promised that considerably reinforced "police presence will be maintained for as long as necessary." Sarkozy also convened an urgent meeting of key cabinet members to discuss ways to prevent a renewal of attacks...
...performance for the Tigers, who won games against Lehigh and Lafeyette last week. The senior forward, daughter of former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Bill Cowher, recorded a double-double in each of Princeton’s games. She scored18 points and 11 rebounds in a win over Lehigh last Tuesday and added 32 points and 13 rebounds in a dominant performance in the Tigers’ 10-point loss to Lafayette on Saturday. Cowher’s double-doubles were the 15th and 16th of collegiate career. Crimson freshman forward Emma Markley was named to the Ivy League Honor Roll...
...more important event for his chances of winning might actually be taking place on Tuesday of this week, when he appears in Portsmouth, New Hampshire with some of his top foreign policy advisers for a forum with local residents. Joining Obama will be Bill Clinton's former national security adviser Tony Lake, along with Richard Danzig, Susan Rice, Samantha Power (a TIME contributor), and Sarah Sewall, as well as some prominent New Hampshire retired military officials. It was just this kind of event that Bill Clinton used effectively in his 1992 campaign to convince voters that he was ready...