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...meaningful exchange "requires that both sides see each other's face". Prime Minister Tony Blair later added that it created a divisive "mark of separation." Wearing the hijab in schools is against the law in certain German states, and similar bans are on the books in some parts of Belgium. France's 2003 legislation banning headscarves in public schools has been hailed by supporters as a success of secularity over furtive proselytizing by fundamentalists. But it has further strained relations between the wider society and the nation's estimated 6 million Muslims - the vast majority of whom are moderate...
...INDIAN BUYER: SUZLON ENERGY Alternative-energy company, wind-turbine maker COMPANY ACQUIRED: HANSEN TRANSMISSION (BELGIUM) Manufacturer of gearboxes for wind turbines PRICE: $565 million DATE: March...
...into the Math Wars. With American kids foundering on state math exams and getting clobbered on international tests by their peers in Singapore and Belgium, parents and policymakers have been searching for a culprit. They've found it in the math equivalent of whole language--so-called fuzzy math, an object of parental contempt from coast to coast. Fuzzy math, properly called reform math, is the bastard child of teaching standards introduced by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (N.C.T.M) in 1989. Like whole language, it was a sensible approach that got distorted into a parody of itself...
...didn't make it as a singer she would have been a cook.) These days, Bhosle's modus operandi is still pretty much a game of hide-and-sing, but on Dec. 9 the graceful septuagenarian will step out from behind the silver screen to give a performance in Belgium, at the Centre for Fine Arts (Palais Des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles) in Brussels. The concert is part of a festival of Indian art and culture organized by bozar with the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, and it runs in Brussels through January. The festival also includes a rare retrospective...
...didn't make it as a singer she would have been a cook.) These days, Bhosle's modus operandi is still pretty much a game of hide-and-sing, but on Dec. 9 the graceful septuagenarian will step out from behind the silver screen to give a performance in Belgium, at the Centre for Fine Arts (BOZAR) in Brussels...