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Old 01-09-2007, 07:46 PM   #3 (permalink)
Topaz Lily
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Here, Mike:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...423872,00.html

Not exactly a high-class Paris thoroughfare:

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a single-lane, freshly paved street between an empty low-income housing building and a warehouse slated for demolition.

It's in an area of crumbling facades, construction cranes and lots covered in wild plant growth -- a typical example of a neighborhood in need of urban renewal in the outlying Paris suburb of Saint-Denis. Its 95,000 residents are mosly black and arab immigrants for Africa. The street signs at both ends of a one-way street say it all: "Rue Mumia Abu-Jamal."
Couldn't tell you why they did it, but that last sentence... there's more than one way to take that.
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