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...Islam have glorious yet violent pasts; both have lost their way with stubborn claims to exclusive truth and the consequent rise of intolerant fundamentalism. Leaders of neither religion can claim the moral high ground, given their failure to shelter the innocent during the great wars and genocides of the 20th century. In the 21st century, both religions have the moral obligation to face the future together. Edward D. Walker East Lansing, Michigan...
...holla!) fired back with a counter-challenge; not to be outdone, Colbert quickly responded with a counter-counter-challenge. Winner: Draw—for now. The score should be settled when Decemberist Chris Funk takes on Colbert in a guitar solo competition on the Report this December 20th. 5. Bloc Party fans vs. Panic! at the Disco When Kele and co. agreed to open for and play second banana to Panic! during an extended tour, hipsters everywhere freaked out, realizing they’d have to go to concerts attended by scenesters. Winner: A pyrrhic victory for the fans...
...Palestinians, for whom Israel's emergence meant displacement and dispossession. Those who deny or diminish the Holocaust aren't only callously negating the lived experience of the Jews of Europe; they are also negating what has been - despite the distance at which it occurred - a defining episode of 20th century Arab history. Trying to negate the Holocaust stokes blind hatred on both sides of the divide, and reinforces the most hard-line positions. That may suit Ahmadinejad's own domestic power game, but it does nothing to help the Palestinians and Israelis find a way out of their endless conflict...
Throughout most of the 20th century, the stream of cars rolling off Michigan assembly lines created jobs with high wages and schools with low expectations. When even a kid who dropped out of school early could look forward to a cozy middle-class living, mastering chemistry, geometry or geography didn't seem so important. But now, at the start of the 21st century, both the state's leading industry and its school system are at a crossroads...
...While train tracks still course through the streets of Wyandotte, Michigan, many of the factories that for much of the 20th century made the city a hub from which cargo containers filled with paper, steel, tires and chemicals were dispatched to consumers around the country and across the ocean are now shuttered. "The opportunity to go to college is about all the students here have now, besides low-paying service jobs," says Mason Grahl, assistant principal at Roosevelt High, where traditionally far less than half the seniors go on to college. To change the mind-set, Grahl and his boss...