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...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 realities? When do we see a law saying that society must open up to the same people it is ordering to integrate?" Those are hotly contested questions as the ban heads for final (and certain) passage by March 3. When the law to forbid...
...because I liked the book as a boy. As for my kids, Caroline didn?t quite get it, while Mary Grace and Jack seemed to feel it was a pleasant walk with Mommy and Daddy, but hardly a patch on ?The Magic Carpets of Alladin,? which they adjudged the equal of ?Dumbo.? That?s high acclaim...
With less fanfare but nearly equal ratings, Romano’s derivatively titled Everybody Loves Raymond has set itself up as television’s anti-Friends. Where Friends focuses on sex-obsessed singles in glamorous New York City, Romano’s sitcom household seems to be located in Eisenhower-era suburbs. His character lives with a nagging stay-at-home wife and wholesome children who emerge from their rooms only occasionally to star in the school play or participate in some sort of sports championship...
...years ago, ex-Pavement guitarist Spiral Stairs released All This Sounds Gas, a wonderfully post-indie record that was equal parts Neil Young and early U2. Comprised of shaky-yet-deeply-felt lyrics and guitar lines that lazily pointed at the sky without ever gathering the momentum to soar, the music lodged in the brain despite its modest ambitions...
Bows and Arrows surpasses the Walkmen’s stellar debut, the intermittently charming and haunting Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone—and that’s saying a lot. Equal parts lilting lullaby and drunken caterwaul, Bows and Arrows sounds like the demented brainchild of a beer-spattered New York hustler with only his inflated sense of self-importance for company. But through each bout of sonic schizophrenia, the Walkmen’s intent and delivery shine clear: each arrow reaches its target with the precision of a Tolkien elf to create gorgeously ethereal, emotionally...