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...Chaos,” “disorder,” “random violence,” “rampant lawlessness,” and “mayhem.” These are but a few of the colorful terms used to describe the urban warfare that erupted throughout the French Republic over two weeks ago. While the French riots certainly saw an increase in the intensity of urban violence, though, the actual incidents of malfeasance—burning cars, pelting police and firemen with rocks and bottles—are very common. Despite the popular...
...WEAPONS-OF-MASS-DESTRUCTION [WMD] SOURCES YOU INTRODUCED TO THE AMERICANS HAVE BEEN DISCREDITED, DO YOU REGRET NOT CHECKING OUT THEIR STORIES MORE? The Robb-Silberman report said we had minimum impact on WMD intelligence as it related to the U.S. decision to go to war. It is an urban myth that we had ill-principled sources. It is our job to check to see that these people are who they say they are. It is the job of the intelligence agencies to do the serious vetting and checking...
...Fool For the City” (comment, Nov. 7), Nikhil G. Mathews argues that the crime, pollution, and lack of chirping birds and beautiful grass are the reasons why the urban setting of Harvard is a drawback...
Ironically, these “terrors of urban living” seem to denigrate the relative trivialities of the country (chirping birds and glorious grass) and accentuate the important educational opportunity available from living in a city like Cambridge. After all, I’d rather wake up to the sound of a blaring horn and be exposed to the deepest problems of society—which are laid bare for all to see in Cambridge—than be serenaded by chickadees in a tranquil setting where the only people I run into are transplanted suburbanites who close their...
...brow-furrowing few seconds to translate that into the Queen's English. If you want some help, click here or holler for your kids. Many teens in the U.K. have a fluent command of Blinglish, a melding of West Indian and English street slang, enriched by borrowings from black urban America and Grime, a form of London hip-hop. It's spoken in schools and clubs, on street corners and all over the Internet - anywhere, in fact, where kids enjoy mastering a language that excludes parents and other authority figures. Until now. The two dictionaries cited above unlock some...