Word: 50th
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...diverse inhabitants to get along. Rather than try to bolster our Christian credentials in response to fears that Islamists are intent on colonizing Europe, we should institutionalize inclusiveness for people of all backgrounds throughout the region. But try telling that to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, is planning to revive the European Constitution underpinned with a Berlin Declaration claiming that Europe is based on Christian values. Fortunately a Europe-wide collaboration of Christians, Muslims, humanists, academics, politicians, writers and ngos is proposing an alternative Brussels Declaration restating the common, inclusive...
...culture that has more in common with the suburbs of California than the football-addicted small towns of South and West Texas. A hotbed of diversity—immigration from soccer-mad Latin America, East Asia, and Africa helped the city grow to become the nation’s 50th largest (and counting) by 2000—it never lacked the competition that would help develop Andre’ into a star on the club circuit...
...went to provence to celebrate my husband's 50th birthday on a six-day, 200-mile bike trip," says Bobbi Brown, whose newest book, Bobbi Brown Living Beauty, comes out next month. Wandering the markets and sampling the cuisine were high on her priority list, but Brown's eponymous cosmetics company was never far from her mind. "I found a lot of really great things that I brought back to our product-development team?a million different soaps and lavenders, all from the local markets," she says. Inspiration for her spring '08 collection even came from a richly colored pashmina...
...women’s alpine team, junior Alexandra Teng placed highest for Harvard in both the slalom and giant slalom. In the slalom, Teng dropped five seconds off her first run time for a total time of 2:15.58, placing 50th. In the giant slalom, she placed 51st with a time...
...critical in Israel's history, but it is unlikely to give any candidate a mandate. ''I am afraid we are going nowhere,'' says Meron Benvenisti, head of the West Bank Data Base Project. ''More of the same. You will be asking the same question ((about the territories)) on our 50th anniversary.'' Paradoxically, Israel's moral territory has contracted as its physical space has expanded. Israelis must consider the dangers of the authoritarian temptation. Israel cannot be a ''light unto the nations'' if it must exhaust itself daily by beating Arabs into submission. The Israeli Arab writer Attalah Mansour describes...