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...extent of physical interaction between police and youths is a significant variable, because it creates passion and outrage among kids elsewhere who have trouble with cops on their own turf. In this instance, we've seen a lot of throwing and firing back and forth," Roché notes. "Injuries are another measure. So far, we've had 77 police injuries in just two nights of conflict alone, versus 200 police injuries in three weeks of rioting in 2005. This is pretty intense...
...Iowa and New Hampshire that he simply decided to fight on more favorable ground, where his name recognition and more natural constituencies would help him a few weeks later. There was some soundness to this theory, since the states holding primaries on February 5 include such potentially Rudy-rich turf as New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and California...
...been clever this time in the battle for Bennelong. In the broader fight, Howard was always going to be hard-pressed holding off the fresh-faced Opposition leader Kevin Rudd. Knowing that task would be even tougher if Howard could be distracted by a tough contest on his home turf, Labor announced in February that its candidate in Bennelong would be Maxine McKew, a distinguished, high-profile former television journalist. The partner of Bob Hogg, a former national secretary of the Labor Party, McKew still doesn't get close to Howard for political experience; but her charm, eloquence and good...
...Baghdad's neighborhoods, local insurgents and militia groups pushed back. In 9 Nisan, Sauer's troops sought to demonstrate to residents that they and the Iraqi government, not the militia, controlled the streets. But local militants loyal to Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army would not give up their turf without a fight. "It was a contest of wills," Freeman says. "We just kept coming at them, and going out there, and getting into the neighborhood...
...double triumph for Calderón. His performance outclassed Mexico's usual disaster response (after the 1985 earthquake, the public basically had to rescue itself while officials tried to underplay the casualties). It also helped Calderón show he cares about poor people in the south, the home turf of his populist rival Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who still tours the country calling himself the "legitimate President...