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...Islam isn't the biggest part of the multicultural conversation, but right now it's the loudest. The head-scarf debate - like anything to do with religion - is charged with emotion. France defends its ban in schools as a necessary step to maintain the nation's official commitment to secularism, pointing out that it also applies to Jewish skullcaps and Christian crosses. But Birgit Sauer, a political scientist at the University of Vienna, says the timing of these new laws shows that Europe is still unwilling to accept Islam as an element of its identity. "All these states had trouble...
Thankfully, much of Lowell’s world has also ceased to exist. Lowell attempted to ban black students from the Yard and place quotas on Jewish admissions. He publicly opposed the appointment of Louis Brandeis—a prominent Jewish lawyer—to the Supreme Court, and was involved in the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti...
...officials make clear that so long as Hamas doesn't embrace and act on the Quartet's demands, the stalemate will continue. Early this morning, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke with other Quartet representatives - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, EU security policy chief Javier Solana, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and European Commissioner for External Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner- via secure telephone conference call. In a statement issued later in the day, the group reaffirmed its principles, adopted a wait-and-see stance on the unity government plan and called a Quartet...
...might have. Just six months into Blair's premiership, Labour was forced to return a $1.7 million donation from Bernie Ecclestone, boss of Formula One motor racing, after suggestions, denied by both sides, that his largesse might have influenced the government's decision to exempt the sport from a ban on tobacco sponsorship. But back then, Blair was untouchable. "I'm a pretty straight sort of guy," he told the BBC's Humphrys in an early encounter. Today that sort of charm doesn't wash with a public made cynical by revelations about dodgy dossiers on Iraq's weapons...
...only thing that made me wary about eating horse is that Brigitte Bardot, perhaps the hottest woman ever, has spent her postacting career campaigning for a ban on the meat. That seemed convincing until I found out that Bardot also backs Jean-Marie Le Pen, the far-right French politician, and has bashed Muslims, gays and the presence of women in government. Plus, she hasn't aged all that well...