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...enough to defuse the anger. "The French just don't think the political class can attack these problems," says Stephane Rozes, a political analyst and pollster. "They see gestures, not problem solving." For years, disgruntled immigrant youths have been trying to attract government attention--occasionally by mounting violent disturbances like last week's. But France has clung to its belief that once black and Muslim and Arab newcomers arrive, they are officially French and do not need special treatment to guarantee their equality. While in theory the children of immigrants have the same rights as their white counterparts, many suffer...
...DIED. AMRITA PRITAM, 86, novelist and poet who published her first story collection at age 16 and went on to write more than 60 works exploring the suffering of South Asian women and the violent division of the Indian subcontinent following the end of British rule in 1947; in New Delhi. Born to a Sikh family in what is now Pakistan, Pritam fled to India during the country's partition?a brutal period that she described in her most famous poem, Ode to Waris Shah...
...When you fire real bullets at police, you're not a 'youth,' you're a thug." NICOLAS SARKOZY, French Interior Minister, on violent clashes between rioters and police in the suburbs of Paris...
...mayoral aide who admitted to having had unprotected sex with at least seven women and girls since 1996, when he learned he was HIV-positive; to 21 years in prison; by a judge who dismissed his claim that he was in denial about his illness and called him a "violent, self-absorbed outlaw"; in Washington. Four of his partners, including a 15-year-old, later tested positive...
...troops since they invaded Iraq in March 2003, and last week 27 more Americans died in insurgent attacks, many of them in Sunni-dominated Anbar province, which includes Fallujah. But Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi security forces aren't ready to assume the burden of imposing order in violent Sunni areas. While the city isn't an outright failure, a military official says the hope that Fallujah could soon serve as a model for U.S. success now looks like "perhaps the result of overzealous expectation...