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Keeping the Americans in is still the most potent glue. Old NATO hands (like this author) can no longer count all those Euro-American crises and collisions that threatened to demolish the coalition about twice a year. The almost-breaking point came in 2002-03, when Paris, Berlin and Moscow joined hands against President George W. Bush and his war in Iraq. And yet the Alliance held...
Piety alone is not the explanation for the change in dress. "The veil is the mask of Egyptian woman in a power struggle against the dictatorship of men," says Nabil Abdel Fattah of Cairo's al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies and author of The Politics of Religion. "The veil gives women more power in a man's world." Ziada, the human-rights activist, says the hijab--her headscarves are in pinks, pastels, floral prints and plaids, not drab black--provides protective cover and legitimacy for her campaigns...
Kadlec is a co-author of With Purpose: Going from Success to Significance in Work and Life (2009), which explores the emerging volunteer revolution
Dave Eggers The founder of McSweeney's is the author of the Sudan-set What Is the What. I nominate Luis Moreno-Ocampo of the International Criminal Court, who prosecuted Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes. His work on the case and the irrefutable body of evidence he assembled resulted in an arrest warrant--the first ever for a sitting head of state...
Elizabeth Gilbert The longtime journalist is the author of the best-selling memoir Eat, Pray, Love. Sister Mary Scullion has helped reduce the number of people living on the streets of Philadelphia by half. Over 95% of those who cycle through her Project H.O.M.E. program have never again become homeless, a success rate that has made the program a model for dozens of other U.S. cities...