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Islam isn't the biggest part of the multicultural conversation, but right now it's the loudest. The head-scarf debate - like anything to do with religion - is charged with emotion. France defends its ban in schools as a necessary step to maintain the nation's official commitment to secularism...
More like an imbalance. And addressing it could require some drastic action. "Political parties may need to use what people might consider unorthodox methods to accelerate their own integration," says Trevor Phillips, head of Britain's Commission for Equality and Human Rights. "They might try to ensure they have proportionate...
France's Interior Minister and presidential hopeful Nicholas Sarkozy has advocated switching to a points-based immigration system. And Britain is already testing its own version, which targets both skilled and unskilled labor to fill gaps across the entire workforce. But Europe has generally been resistant to the idea. The...
When Jack R. Meyer, former CEO of the Harvard Management Company (HMC), left the University to establish his own hedge fund with a record-setting $6 billion, investors expected him to continue his string of market-beating performance. This past year, however, showed that even veteran investors can struggle in...
As my colleague Hannah Beech wrote when Chen's sentence of four years and three months was announced last September, Chen is a "self-schooled legal activist [who] came to Shanghai to publicize the plight of women who had been forced to undergo abortions or sterilizations as part of the...