Headlines

"Paris May Face Curfew ..." screamed the NY Times headline, and I thought, phew, I knew Paris Hilton's latest run-in with the police, had attracted some attention but it hardly seemed to justify a curfew. Of course, they were talking about curfews in Paris, France, in an effort to curb continuing rioting. It was also good to read that the local authorities are planning some proactive measures - trying to address the millieu in which the riots have been able to take hold and look at improving the economic lot of the people in the affected areas (one of the main socioeconomic/political causes of the escalating violence).