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...society." But Muslims have to do their bit too. Roald broke off ties with non-Muslim friends after her conversion. "I regret it," she says. "The only way for Muslims to succeed in this society is to be part of it" - her Palestinian-born husband is a local councilor in Malmö. Hopes also rest on the next generation. Roald's three teenage children mix comfortably with both Muslims and non-Muslims. "They have the religious way of Islam and the Norwegian view of society, which means I give them space and freedom." It surprises some non-Muslims that these...
Among their live interview subjects were former Boston City Councilor Lawrence DiCara and former presidential candidate Gary Hart. Representatives from the Harvard Democrat Club and the Harvard Republican Club were on hand to question the guests...
...people without restriction; drug addicts from elsewhere found cruising the neighborhood can be arrested and forced into detox programs. "In a city where 43% of the population is not of Dutch origin, it's especially important that the rules for noncitizens be clear and enforceable," says Opstelten. For city councilor Michiel Smit, 26, a member of Livable Rotterdam, another party Fortuyn once headed, those programs don't go far enough. Smit particularly likes the idea of deporting criminal offenders of Turkish or Moroccan origin, even if they were born in the Netherlands and have Dutch passports. "We grant nationality...
...parking woes for municipal officials are not self-contained in D.C. Here in Boston, City Councilor Chuck Turner, who represents Roxbury, spent his summer try to stave off his seventh license suspension. Turner has been issued 31 parking tickets since January 2001. His RMV record runs five pages long. His most recent scuffle with law enforcement comes from the fact that he is driving a beat-up Chrysler that has failed its inspection. But this is nothing new for Turner, who has been known on several occasions to drive with an expired or revoked license. In addressing these violations...
...children whom councilor Brown invoked were, of course, a school of red herrings. Barnstable’s priority is not its natives; the business community’s concerns lie elsewhere. Even the most energetic public relations effort by the aforementioned booster, the doyen of the Hyannis Main Street Business Improvement District and Hyannis’ leading Babbitt, cannot reconcile the Kennedy Compound with the homeless camp, the lobster-wielding old salt with the shuffling transient and the undulating sand dunes with the drifts of tiny liquor bottles that sanitation workers shoveled into dump trucks in mid-July. The homeless...