Word: blocs
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...government do to fight rising racial tension? And why do many second-generation Muslim Belgians still not feel at home? The situation is especially dire in Antwerp, where unemployment in many immigrant communities hovers around 30%. Under the slogan "Our People First," the far-right Vlaams Blok (Flemish Bloc) garnered one-third of the vote in the last municipal elections in October 2000. Abou Jahjah gives Belgium's Muslims a radical voice to counter the Blok. He showed up at the scene of Achrak's murder barely 30 minutes after the crime; what happened next is in dispute. Abou Jahjah...
...into a terminus. Do they contradict themselves? Very well, they contradict themselves. And they have such fun doing so; this is revolution as parlor sport. But the chat has gravity, for at issue is the question of how men shall live. Stoppard, himself a child refugee from the Soviet bloc, has embraced liberal humanism - human-ness, humaneness - in all his work. At the very end of the trilogy, when he bequeaths Herzen one final speech to rebut Marx's theory of historical inevitability, Stoppard is doubtless speaking for himself in articulating an enlightened middle way, the heroism of small graces...
...judging from the talk in Iraqi tea houses, it may be going too far to suggest - as Bush Administration war planners seem to do - that Iraqis who hate Saddam would love an American invasion of Iraq. In Iraq, as in the former Communist bloc, you do find oppressed people who look to America as the land of freedom and prosperity. But as Iraqis are Arabs, many of them are quick to qualify their positive feelings, citing bad memories of British colonialism in Iraq and longstanding resentment of America's support for Israel...
MOST CLOSELY ALIGNED VOTING BLOC Loretta, below right, and Linda Sanchez of California became the first sisters to serve together in Congress (the first brothers served together in 1853). The Sanchezes may share a house in Washington, an arrangement that would undoubtedly be adapted into a network sitcom...
...midst of the mudslinging during the campaign’s final month, Romney reached out to independent voters—a bloc almost as large as the combined number of registered partisans...