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...more than 30 years. I retain my American values, but I have totally immersed myself in Spanish society and thoroughly enjoy living here. I have seen others - French, German, British, Romanian - doing the same. But I have yet to see Muslims integrating into the European society that they have chosen to call home. My suggestion is to take the British stance: it is time to begin deporting immigrants who propagate terrorism or incite violence. Russell W. MacDonald Huelva, Spain Your story on the disaffection of young European Muslims suggests a parallel with European Jews. Despite centuries of racial, religious...
...guests were arriving for the speech. Dr. Wolfgang Klietmann, Lecturer on Pathology at Harvard Medical School, drove through the protesters on his way into the club to hear Summers. He said he knew nothing about the subject of the protest, but that he believed its location was not well chosen. The workers and students “should stay on the campus,” he said. Members of the Student Labor Action Movement, a student organization supporting workers, said the protest was intended to focus attention—and pressure—on Harvard. “Harvard doesn?...
...from now, would dissolve the Campus Life Committee (CLC)—one of the UC’s three standing committees—and replace it with an autonomous Social Events Committee (SEC) that would oversee campus-wide social programming. SEC members would be chosen by students in campus-wide elections, and UC members would not be eligible to serve. “The SEC will establish a more concrete relationship with the Office of Student Activities,” said UC President Matthew J. Glazer ’06, who added that...
...Iraq. The posting asserted that all three bombers and a woman it claimed was part of the team were Iraqis. Jordanian officials said Saturday the bombers were all non-Jordanians but denied that a woman was involved. The message from al-Qaeda justified the attacks, saying the targets were chosen because they are frequented by foreigners en route to Iraq, which in al-Zarqawi's view makes such locales "centers for launching war on Islam." The attacks also represented a chilling milestone: if al-Zarqawi was indeed behind them, they would mark the first time his network has pulled...
...making them human shows us they are not superhuman: they make mistakes, they get emotional, they have doubts. Each of them may, at some point, be stopped. In Paradise Now, from Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad, Said (Kais Nashif) seems like an ordinary slacker auto mechanic until he is chosen to undertake a suicide bombing, which he volunteered for long before. Said comes across not as a news-article composite but as a believable, mixed-up young man. In the U.S. he might have been the star of a coming-of-age story; in Nablus he ends up with...