There are no riots in its streets nor gigantic social problems at its door.
No riots ensued, and the president boasts he "just cut the line" ahead of his domestic critics with electronic and broadcast links to his people.
In the event, some of the organisation was ropey, but there were no overwhelming logistical problems, no riots, no crowd crushes, no hooliganism and no witch doctors cursing opponents all problems that had marred previous tournaments.
No one wants riots, looting, and long-term poverty.
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Military sources suspect other organizations involved in the riots are no more than local rackets headed by thugs recruited from the provinces and set loose in the capital.
It said there was no single cause of the riots, but said it was shocked at the "collective pessimism" among the young people it had spoken to.
But with an insurgency raging and an election approaching, no one believes it will risk sparking riots by allowing the price to rise.
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True in a sense: but these changes just made Paris more like London, which had the frightening Gordon Riots in 1780, but no revolution.
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Two people who were trapped in a burning social club during the Bradford riots say they feel "no bitterness" a decade on from their ordeal.
But when thousands died in Christian-Muslim clashes in the 1980s, and thousands more in riots in Kano in 1991, no prolonged fighting followed.
The UK has had no official contact with him since the communal riots in Gujarat because of his alleged complicity in the violence against Muslims, which saw hundreds killed by Hindu nationalists.
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Conservative MP Louise Mensch went even further, suggested an enforced "blackout" of social media sites during future disturbances, arguing that it would stop inaccurate rumours about trouble (in no short supply on the evenings of the riots) spreading online.
No one still is really clear of the reasons why (the riots) did occur.
Admittedly, Cameron did himself no favors by not deploying more police more quickly to quash the riots in the first place.
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"No live ammunition of any kind was used except for standard protocol for dealing with riots, " he said.
Meanwhile, the government-backed Riots, Communities and Victims Panel published its interim report, which found no single cause but that in many areas there was "an overriding sense of despair that people could destroy their own communities".
In 2005, Chirac was president when riots engulfed French suburbs and French voters delivered him a humiliating personal defeat by voting no to the European constitution for which he had campaigned.
Springsteen is no longer in the Beatlemania phase of the mid-eighties a period of mini-riots around his hotels but he is still able to sell out stadiums on the I-95 corridor and other cities in the United States.
But what the L.A. Riots taught me, and taught most clear-headed Angelinos, is that there is no real or imagined injustice that justifies murder, assault, and mayhem, let alone the wanton destruction of property, homes, and businesses.
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"There has been no shortage of national commentary, opinion and speculation, but the people best placed to help us understand the riots are communities themselves, " said Mr Singh.
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