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...clear, chilly October morning, Mahmoud Abdelwahab leads a group of about 200 Muslim parents as they march on Bonn's city hall to protest efforts to shut down their school, the King Fahd Academy. German counterterrorism and local government officials claim that the academy promotes a radical brand of Islam, and that people affiliated with the school are linked to terrorism. Abdelwahab, 44, a spokesman for parents whose children attend the academy, says that's nonsense. He stops in front of city hall's pink Baroque façade and launches into an angry speech against the city's attempt...
...starkly, the cost of our Iraq adventure becomes clear in terms that every American can understand: $1 billion a week. A body a day. Two questions: What are we buying with this open-ended outpouring of American treasure and lives? And how long will we pay the price? Ron Bonn San Diego...
...Independence, Missouri). Observed Brad Nelson of Ypsilanti, Michigan: "Unlike Truman, it seems that George W. Bush would rather pass the buck." William C. Ellerman of Silver Spring, Maryland, quipped, "By making the hapless CIA agents the fall guys, Bush signaled that THE BUCK STOPS ANYWHERE BUT HERE." And Ron Bonn of San Diego deduced, "Bush has evidently amended Truman's sign to read THE BUCK STOPS OVER THERE AT TENET'S PLACE...
With time, the people too will forsake their conception of the old Berlin. During the time of the city’s separation, the capital of West Germany was moved to Bonn, a move designed to be strictly temporary. And while the capital has since returned to its rightful home, time has yet to heal the more subtle wounds of remaining prejudice and animosity between the people on either side. Berlin is the only city where East and West meet so intimately and thus it affords an invaluable opportunity to begin to aspire to the motto of that first Love...
...mood is really bad," says Therese Dietrich, head of Berlin's Europa-Job-Center. "People just want to get out." Don't expect this trend to die off anytime soon. "People's willingness to move abroad is going to increase further," says Jürgen Goecke, director of the Bonn-based Central Job Placement Agency, "because the situation in the labor market, where unemployment is currently at 10.4% and at a staggering 18.6% in the eastern states, is not likely to change soon." Goecke expects the most popular destinations will be the Netherlands (where the construction industry is in need...