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...rage expressed night after night by alienated youth dealt a crushing blow to France's self-image as a model of tolerance and social equality. Could such riots occur in Canada, a nation of immigrants, many of whom face severe economic challenges and are excluded from Canadian society? We must make sure that Canada's educational system imparts a sense of shared values and that there are real equal opportunities for all. Syed Waris Shere Winnipeg...
...camp in the constitutional referendum. Largely ignored by Germany and France, Barroso has now tried to distance himself from his onetime ally Blair, decrying his budget proposal for sending "a message of a Europe downsizing to the lowest common denominator." There's no question Barroso has been dealt a difficult hand, but many observers criticize him for pitting the Commission against the member states, instead of trying to rally them to a higher cause. "Any Commission President who doesn't have the backing of the large member states is toothless," says Katinka Barysch, chief economist at the Centre for European...
...hatred brewing in immigrant housing projects? The greatest damage inflicted by the riots has been to the hopes of young Arab men and women who really want to become integrated into their adopted country. Jayant Gala Brossard, Canada The rage expressed night after night by alienated youth dealt a crushing blow to France's self-image as a model of tolerance and social equality. Could such riots occur in Canada, a nation of immigrants, many of whom face severe economic challenges and are excluded from Canadian society? We must make sure that Canada's educational system imparts a sense...
...feature will allow users to input descriptive statements about their relationships. (For instance: “I took CS50 with this person freshman year.”) During the roughly 80-minute presentation, Zuckerberg fielded a plethora of questions related to facebook.com, few of which dealt with the programming driving the site. “Any CS50 questions?” Zuckerberg joked repeatedly. But Teaching Fellow Jeff W. Bezanson ’04 was not surprised by the shortage of questions related to the class. “I wasn’t expecting a lot of technical questions...
...Supreme Court dealt gay rights activists a severe blow in June 2000 when the justices, in a 5-4 vote, ruled that New Jersey could not prevent the Boy Scouts from ousting a homosexual scoutmaster. Now, a team of gay rights activists and law school professors hopes to wrest a major victory from the jaws of defeat.The June 2000 case, Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, could figure prominently in oral arguments this morning as the justices consider a high-profile dispute over campus military recruitment. A coalition of three-dozen law schools, the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights...