At Camden Lock shortly after 1pm, there is a moment of confusion - almost anarchy - as a funeral cortege goes by.
Last week's seemingly relentless slide to wholesale anarchy appears--at any rate, for the time being--to have been stemmed.
Authoritarianism and anarchy co-exist within countries that seek to consolidate democracies.
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It is not anarchy here, but - to use another Hellenic word - neither is there catharsis.
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That on- and off-shore anarchy might be halted by a temporary government imposed under UN mandate remains an improbable ideal.
Most important of all, the government is drafting a law to make it harder for Albanians to keep some 1m guns looted from police stations and barracks during the anarchy, and from mid-September it will step up a campaign to seize them.
To a western world whose darkest fear is that south-eastern Europe will slide into anarchy, a strongman who can deliver may seem preferable to chaos.
Although Washington never formally cut diplomatic ties with Somalia, the 1993 Black Hawk Down incident - in which 18 US servicemen died after militia fighters shot down two US military helicopters - marked the country's descent into anarchy.
Moved by a combination of reason and fear, Hobbes believed, human beings will contract with each other to create a sovereign - an absolute ruler who will prevent any slide into anarchy.
That 4, 000-year-old culture sits at the border between wise development and environmental anarchy, and the people of America's polar county will soon watch with hope and fear as the oil ships move north.
Anarchy in Afghanistan, or a Taliban restoration, would leave it prey to permanent cross-border instability.
Responding to a petition from the film's Toronto-based director, Deepa Mehta, to prevent a slide into "complete anarchy, " the Supreme Court has upbraided the federal government for not preventing the assaults.
As they read, the first-rate cast gets more and more physical, ending in a kind of mild anarchy to no real purpose.
In Albania, a 30-year-old prime minister-designate, Pandeli Majko, is struggling to keep the lid on political ferment and anarchy.
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