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As joyful Palestinians ululated and fired pistols into the air, Israeli forces began their withdrawal from parts of the West Bank. Despite pledges of peace and brotherhood signed last month in Washington, the transfer of power in several towns was terse and businesslike at best. A banner in Arabic that...
New York City schools have experienced a 49% increase in non-English-speaking immigrants in six years. Besides Spanish, classes are now taught in Chinese, Haitian Creole, Russian, Korean, Arabic, Vietnamese, Polish, Bengali and French. A few schools offer a full program in the student's native language, but most...
Not all communities are braced for the challenge of multilingualism. At Salina Elementary School in the shadow of the hulking Ford Rouge auto plant in Dearborn, Michigan, 90% of the students are native speakers of Arabic. Academically, many of them lag far behind other students in the district. Earlier this...
Hussein Kamel, 47, who is also a relative of Saddam's, figured as a pillar of that edifice. Since the 1980s he has overseen procurement of the nightmarish weaponry that variously made his boss a hero in the eyes of some Arabs and an outlaw menace to most of the...
Also, exam groups are no longer indicated by Roman numerals, but are denoted by Arabic numerals.