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...doubt simply waiting for the election-weekend ban on all vehicle traffic to be lifted in order to launch a new wave of car bombings, to the radical Shiite populist Moqtada Sadr who kept a low profile over the election period but retains substantial support among restive Shiite urban youth - will no doubt be looking for opportunities to pursue their own agendas...
...simply too scared to speak up." It wasn't always like this. In the 1990s, Naples experienced a momentary renaissance as tourism boomed and civic pride swelled in the wake of the 1994 G-7 summit held in the city. But an unemployment rate of close to 20%, youth joblessness over 60% and the ubiquity of the Camorra stand in the way of a permanent comeback. "Naples gets remembered and forgotten as people see fit," Pisani says. "This Mob war is now endemic to Naples." The evidence is everywhere. On a recent police patrol, Naples commander Stefano Valletta pointed...
...Outside, two young men square off drunkenly but stop when a police van glides by. Between midnight and 4 a.m., casualties stream into the Queen's Medical Center emergency department: a motionless clubber on a stretcher whom the Kevlar-clad ambulance crew wheels straight to a treatment room; a youth whose injuries - a lacerated hand and a bite on his arm - were sustained in a brawl outside a pub; and a tipsy woman in high-heeled boots who hurt her ankle on a cobblestone walkway. It's a typical Friday night in the center of Nottingham, a city...
...Fans of Murakami will find none of this unusual. Since Norwegian Wood, his 1989 tale of nostalgia and loss (4.5 million copies and counting), the former Tokyo jazz-club owner, now 56, has gained worldwide fame for his coolly narrated stories of odd disappearances, bizarre quests, disaffected youth and a Japan struggling with its wartime past. He is also noted for his nonfiction books about the 1995 Kobe earthquake and Tokyo subway gas attack, as well as his translations of works by American masters, from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Raymond Carver. So vast is Murakami's fame that nearly...
...postponement were turned down, some like Yawer and Pachachi chose to participate, while others like the Islamic Party withdrew, although they didn't actively call for a boycott. The wild card in the pack is radical Shiite populist Moqtada al-Sadr, whose organization has mass support among urban Shiite youth in Baghdad. Sadr, who has twice tangled with U.S. forces in epic confrontations, has hedged his bets, with some of his known supporters joining the UIA list under Sistani's auspices, while other spokesmen for his movement have publicly questioned the legitimacy of the election. Sadr appears to be hedging...