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...aspect of mosque design provokes more anger than most: the minaret. Across Europe, minarets on city skylines have become a political issue. In the Netherlands, Filip Dewinter, a leader of the right-wing Vlaams Belang party, decried a new Rotterdam mosque because its minarets were higher than the lights of the city's soccer stadium. "These kinds of symbols have to stop," he told Radio Netherlands Worldwide. In 2007, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that minarets shouldn't be "ostentatiously higher than church steeples...
...There's no Belgian nation. There's no Belgian anything.' FILIP DEWINTER, leader of the far-right Flemish nationalist Vlaams Belang party, on a plan to redivide Belgium into Dutch-speaking Flanders and French-speaking Wallonia, the two regions that united to form the country in 1830. Polls show as many as 40% of Belgians support the plan...
...occasionally shout to accompany different segments of the dance—was less effective, serving more to distract viewers from the dance than to complement the dancers’ movements. This was followed by “Sway,” a charged Latin style dance self-choreographed by Filip Ilievski, a graduate student at MIT, and Jennifer M. Markham ’07 of Harvard Ballroom. Ilievski and Markham certainly worked the stage, pulling off a riveting and obviously emotional performance. The two later returned for “Tell Me Why,” the second-to-last...
...Harvard vs. Harvard matchup in the finals. In the singles draw, sophomore Chris Clayton won two of three matches, beating Ira Reibsen of Bucknell and Luka Djordjevic of Hofstra before bowing out to Penn’s Jason Pinsky. Fellow Harvard sophomore Michael Kalfayan beat Manhattan’s Filip Syzmik before falling in the round of 16 to Faisel Mohad of Binghamton. The fall tournament season for the Crimson men continues at the Dartmouth Invitational, which takes place over the weekend of Friday...
...duct tape reading “don’t ask, don’t tell” strapped across their mouths.Brandishing a sign reading “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Codifies Homophobia,” third-year law student Ashley L. Filip ’01 said she came to the protest to oppose the Pentagon policy and the presence of recruiters on campus.“I would like to see more of a personal stand taken by the University...just in terms of doing more to encourage discussion...