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...dramatic and ugly as the violence has been, however, the banlieue riots do not represent a new opportunity for jihadist recruiters, nor does it bear the fingerprints of Islamist instigators. That ethnic Arabs are vastly over-represented in the banlieue is no secret. Neither is the exploitation of the rampant misery and racism of the suburbs by Islamists recruiters. But the youths currently involved in rioting don't fit the profile sought by highly secretive jihadists, whose primary fear is infiltration by the authorities. Most rioters are active in their own neighborhoods, are known to the inhabitants looking...
...Cobb said. “I would like to believe that it was worth what it cost.”Knafel, who is also a Crimson editor, originally pledged $15 million in 1996 to fund the center and later added another $11 million.Originally, the entire complex was to bear his name, but as a result of the project’s increased scope, his name now adorns only one of its two anchor buildings. Naming rights for the other building are still available to donors.Concluding the dedication, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby noted that the Knafel Building?...
...minority women that African-American banker Erika Irish Brown, 36, felt comfortable asking to place her fianc's son on her health plan while she worked for a minority-owned media company. "I felt it was something that was accepted there," she says. "Women of color tend to bear greater responsibilities at home, and we need all the support we can get." She doesn't know whether the benefit would have been extended to her on Wall Street, where Brown recently returned. But as head of recruiting for diverse, experienced professionals at Lehman Brothers, she feels confident that Wall Street...
...highly opinionated." Colbert is speaking about his on-air persona, the pundit and star of The Colbert Report, the spin-off of Comedy Central's hit fake-news series The Daily Show. Still, after a while, he stops himself. "I think I need to start calling him Col-bear," says the actor, using the correct pronunciation of his surname, "and me Col-bert. It's getting weird...
...linking the gender disparity in China—where males are more prevalent than females—to the hepatitis B virus. In a paper that will be published in the Journal of Political Economy, she showed that mothers who carry hepatitis B are 1.5 times more likely to bear a boy instead of a girl. “Countries with more hepatitis have higher sex ratios [male to female] at birth,” she wrote in an e-mail. In most parts of the world, the number of newborn girls has roughly equaled the number of newborn boys...