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Angels' Night? Devil's Night by another name has been different in Detroit, where volunteer patrols across the city along with a curfew and a ban on gas in portable containers cut fires to 121 last year from a high of 810 in 1984. That's relative progress, I grant, but progress nonetheless. Since I'll be posting on fast food later today, I should mention that the angels are rewarded with free food from White Castle ("In Greek mythology, ambrosia is the food of gods, but angels have more discriminating tastes"). A fawning but nonetheless interesting interview with Steven Johnson, author of The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World, a surprisingly good book from the guy until now best known for the over-hyped and uninteresting Everything Bad Is Good For You. Businessweek compares housing booms and busts in different regions, and explains why the outlook is gloomy for Miami, Phoenix and Las Vegas. And the Adjustable Rate Mortgages that helped fuel the boom are now churning the market's depths in San Francisco. And Cities on a Hill Editor-In-Chief Fred Siegel on France's rolling riots—"France today is a lot like New York before Rudy Giuliani. Its pitiful helpless giant of a government is so large so as to crush the economy and yet unable to stem widespread criminality. And as in New York, there is the fear that its best days are behind it."
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"France's rolling riots" was so helpful in understanding why left leaning non-Muslims give Jihadists a pass and/or join them. Thanks for your insightful analysis.
Posted by: Susan Bolger | October 31, 2006 03:29 PM