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...Push People Up The biggest source of conflict in a multicultural society isn't segregation, race or religion - it's money. "The areas where there is the biggest tension in Britain are not the most diverse areas," says the Young Foundation's Mulgan, "but areas where a particular model of male, usually full-time, well-paid employment, has disappeared and been replaced with much less secure employment." Europe's minorities suffer, on average, more than double the rate of unemployment as whites. But a blanket affirmative-action policy like the kind in place in the U.S. is a nonstarter...
...obey the law is simply part of his job. "Some people seem to think that legality and security are only issues for the right," Cofferati tells TIME. "But, in today's society, governing means helping create the best conditions for different people from different backgrounds to live together without conflict...
...darkest days of the Iraq war, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is on a mission to restore order. Can she possibly bring peace to Iraq and mediate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict without admitting the Administration's mistakes? Readers fear it may already be too late to change course...
...summer of 2006. Our objection to the construction and expansion of Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories does not stem from a pacifist philosophy but from a pragmatic conviction: such settlements undermine Israel's security and the efforts to achieve a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Ori Nir, Spokesman Americans for Peace Now Washington...
...claimed that the strife in Iraq since the summer of 2003 can be laid largely at the feet of foreign actors - from Arab jihadists to the Syrian regime to the Iranians. But the briefers said their concern was the safety of U.S. troops. They acknowledged that the sectarian conflict in Iraq would continue even without Iranian involvement. But they said they hoped the publicity they were bringing to the origin of the weaponry would prompt the Iraqi government to take the problem more seriously. The message to Iraqi leaders, the lead briefer said, was: "Please engage with and talk...