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...public schools, which was passed by the lower house of the French Parliament on Feb. 10. A youth counselor and lifelong resident of Paris banlieues - the poor, often violent and ethnically diverse housing developments on the outskirts of France's big cities - Cazenave, 30, might be expected to defend the right of Muslim girls to wear head scarves at school. But he backs the ban, and even wants the government to go further. "This law is a Band-Aid stuck on a serious social fracture," Cazenave says. "When do the republican values of equal opportunity and access for all become...
...loss to Penn Feb. 6, Harvard proved unable to defend the three. Many of Brown’s 13 trifectas came after star point guard Jason Forte penetrated before kicking the ball out to the perimeter, where the Bears whipped it around to the open man as the Crimson scrambled futilely to chase...
...preseason favorite, Harvard was the team to beat with the offense every coach in the league aimed to defend. Now, rather, it is Penn living the undefeated dream season. After bowing under pressure, the Crimson now has the unfamiliar opportunity of playing with nothing to lose...
...money," Bush did nod in the direction of restraint by proposing to cut 65 programs and eliminate 63 others. But in the devilish details were all sorts of contradictions. Some cuts are to programs so popular that Congress will just ignore the request. It was difficult for Bush to defend cuts in funds for the Centers for Disease Control (8.9%) and for combatting bioterrorism in the week that ricin was being mailed to the Senate majority leader. However vital the issues of war and homeland security, there was $805 million less for emergency workers, and 210,000 veterans could...
...detonated themselves in the offices of the two main Kurdish political parties in the city of Arbil, killing more than 100. The attacks raised fears that the violence plaguing the rest of Iraq might now routinely spill into the Kurdish areas and might have strengthened the Kurds' determination to defend the autonomy they have enjoyed since 1991, when the U.S. established a no-fly zone in northern Iraq to protect the Kurds from Saddam. The U.S. has assured the Kurds that the new government in Baghdad will allow them to maintain their own parliament and security forces. But many observers...