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...religious holidays, no one gets excited or attacks other religions. We just get along together. So we don't understand the fury generated by the Muslim immigrants in Europe. Chris Taylor Cape Town Before Muslims become enraged at the rising sentiment against them in Europe, before they expect and demand acceptance of their presence here - complete with head scarves, imams, mosques and even involvement in politics - shouldn't they stop and think about the way non-Muslim foreigners are treated in some of their home countries? Are non-Muslims there offered the same hospitality Muslims expect in Europe? Far from...
...instance, can be as easy as tracing your family tree back to a distant relative on an obscure tribal census taken in 1906. Other Cherokee Nations require a blood quantum—the proportion of tribal blood inherited from parents—of 1/32, while still other tribes demand up to one-half...
...less-than-stellar recommendations get the treatment Gen Ed’s have gotten—and, given the Faculty’s new sense of empowerment there is little reason to think that they won’t—the Faculty is in a position to demand a more coherent set of recommendations not just from Gen Ed, but from every committee reviewing the curriculum. And Summers will likely have to cede even more control over the Review to Faculty...
...companies have differentiated themselves. While fillyourfridge.com delivers its snacks and beverages—anything from Poland Spring to Easy Mac—to your door on weekends, HSA delivers any day of the week, but only during select weeks. (Kopko explains that since his company delivers in bulk, demand isn’t high enough to merit being on-call all the time...
...sticking point in negotiations between the Shiite and the Kurdish lists has been less over the makeup of the executive branch than over broad guarantees demanded by the Kurds for secularism and adherence to the TAL (which is rejected, in principle, by Sistani, among others) - and more importantly, over Kurdish separatist demands. The Kurds are using the kingmaker status granted them by the TAL to demand not only that they maintain the autonomy they have enjoyed for over a decade under the protection of the Allied ?no-fly? zone, but also that their domain be extended to include the fiercely...