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...intended and his conservative family. Another assistant is rather surprised to discover that she is leaning toward lesbianism. One customer, coming to grips with menopause, is trying, rather frantically, to salvage what's left of her rather disappointing life by becoming an actress. The spinster seamstress who lives next door is flirting with a client, but her desire is deterred by her need to care for her aged and dotty sister. You could perhaps characterize this as a Shop of Fools. You might also think of Caramel as another version of one of those agreeable, insignificant little comedies like Barbershop...
...1990s when researchers at Yale University published several influential studies proving that personal canvassing is more effective than direct mail or phone calls from strangers. In 2001, Republicans put the idea to a test in several special congressional elections, and the extra money and time devoted to door-knocking produced instant results. So the G.O.P. expanded the effort in 2002, then applied it to presidential politics in 2004. The party's mammoth "72-Hour Project" - named for the final weekend of the campaign, when G.O.P. volunteers made literally millions of personal pitches - helped George W. Bush become the first candidate...
...Another two weeks went by, and Lubetkin still heard nothing from Mitzi. On a Friday afternoon in early June, a distraught Lubetkin walked into the Continental Hyatt House next door to the Comedy Store, climbed to the roof of the fourteen-story building, and leaped to his death. His suicide note read: "My name is Steve Lubetkin. I used to work at the Comedy Store...
...cleaner. I'm the lawyer.'" In fairness to the receptionist, Arslan was making history that morning, as the first attorney to wear a hijab in the Netherlands. Ten years on, she has her own practice in the Hague. Her name's on the door, her cat Hussein pads around and a veiled assistant fields phone calls. "People keep telling me how successful I am," says Arslan. "But I'm not all that successful. Had I not been a migrant woman in a hijab, I could have gone much further." Still, when younger Muslims ask Arslan how to climb the professional...
...Muslims who want to thrive in the European mainstream feel they have to take their cue from Christians and make their faith a private matter, so that they become Protestantized, as it were, at the office. To get on at work, they need to leave their faith at the door. Both in the office and outside it, "Islam is only a problem when it becomes visible," says Omid Nouripour, a Muslim and a Green member of Germany's parliament...