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From:Apparel OnlineLong-term impact yet to emerge With over 10% of the UK's retail and leisure companies, being directly or indirectly impacted by the mayhem of London riots that also spread to Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool and...
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From:Commentary (Vol. 132, Issue 3)The riots that erupted in London on August 6 finally petered out after four days. By then thousands of police officers had been drafted from other parts of the United Kingdom to stand guard on the streets of London and...
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From:The Economist (Vol. 315, Issue 7649)IT HAS been a lousy week for British self-esteem and for Mrs Thatcher's struggling government. Rampaging prisoners in Manchester's Strangeways jail appear to have at, tacked each other like animals, in an outburst more...
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From:Maclean's (Vol. 124, Issue 32)YOU KNOW YOU'RE in England when locals gather at the scene of a prospective riot armed only with cups of tea. On Camden High Street in central London--just across from the dank, urine-scented waters of the once-bustling...
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From:Financial DirectorByline: Gavin Hinks Few finance directors live to see their business literally go up in flames. But that is precisely the experience of Trevor Reeves, FD at House of Reeves, the Croydon furniture store that...
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From:USA Today (Vol. 149, Issue 2906)TOO OFTEN, New Yorkers look with horror at Oklahoma's 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre or the 1923 Rosewood Massacre in Florida and allow themselves a bit of inner relief that our city has a different, less brutal history when...
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From:The New York Times MagazineTo hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android . In the spring of 1991, I was in the Los Angeles Times newsroom when word came that a local Black motorist...
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From:Los Angeles Business Journal (Vol. 24, Issue 14)EVEN as the fires were still smoldering, politicians wasted no time in promising a whole raft of government initiatives to rebuild and improve the long-neglected innercity economy. Many of the damaged properties were...
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From:Los Angeles Business Journal (Vol. 24, Issue 17)ON the 25th anniversary of the 1965-Watts riots in 1990, then Mayor Tom Bradley was asked whether L.A. could be racked by another riot. Bradley was confident that it couldn't happen again. A scant two years later...
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From:Post MagazineA Tottenham broker has claimed that hundreds of residents and small business owners without insurance have been left "devastated" following riots and looting in the area. Clive Denham, director at Alpha Denson, told...
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From:Michigan History Magazine (Vol. 100, Issue 4)The 1967 Detroit Rebellion remains one of the most deadly and destructive urban uprisings in U.S. history. Though much of what happened can be accurately described as a riot--based on lawlessness; arson; looting; and...
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From:The New York Times Magazine27 years before the 1992 Riots, the journalist Walter Thompson covered the 1965 Watts Riots. Looking back through his reporting notebook, Thompson's grandson considers what did and didn't change between the two events....
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From:National Underwriter Property & Casualty Insurance (Vol. 115, Issue 29)THE ASSOCIATION of British Insurers (ABI) says carriers are expecting "significant losses" of more than 100 million pounds ($162 million at current exchange rate) from damages caused by rioting in boroughs of London and...
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From:New Statesman (Vol. 140, Issue 5067)David Lammy's call for the left to grapple with questions of family and fatherhood in the aftermath of the Tottenham riots presents both a wonderful opportunity and a grave danger. The opportunity should be clear....
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From:Marketing EventWere the riots damaging to London's reputation as an events destination? Every month we will be asking you, the Event readers, to cast your vote on a topical issue via our poll at eventmagazine.co.uk, and air your...
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From:Spectator (Vol. 316, Issue 9547)Most politicians who hang pictures of battle scenes in their office do so from a sense of nostalgia. For Iain Duncan Smith, it is about militaristic feng shui . Since becoming Secretary of State for Work and Pensions,...
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From:Spectator (Vol. 317, Issue 9562)It was a reasonable guess that, once the government had appointed a group of the great and good to investigate the summer riots, somehow we would all have to share the blame. It is a central tenet of liberal Britain...
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From:Commonweal (Vol. 138, Issue 16)As I watched the rioting in London last month snowball from the suburbs to the center of the city and then beyond the capital, it was easy to be reminded of Margaret Thatcher's famous dictum that there is no such thing...
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From:The Economist (Vol. 400, Issue 8747)Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, met in Paris in the latest attempt to assure the world that the euro zone is not about to fall apart. Among their suggestions were...
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From:New Statesman (Vol. 140, Issue 5067)The smoke is clearing from our inner cities. Hundreds of young people have been shovelled through our criminal justice system with scarcely a nod to due process. The political elite, however, believe that they have...