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...study on the plane back to school; Constance McMillen, the Mississippi student who was not allowed to attend her high school prom with her girlfriend; people who worry that Arizona’s new law will lead to their being stopped and questioned by officers who think they look foreign-born; and thousands of others. But I hope you can answer her question about why we should care about "that Guantánamo stuff," whether you cite the rule of law, the American tradition of leadership in human rights, or just the Golden Rule...

Author: By Susan N. Herman | Title: Change We Can Believe In? | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Yesterday’s discussion was part of the France in the World seminar, which this year focuses on foreign-born Francophone authors living in France...

Author: By Alexander J.B. Wells, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Afghan Uses TV for Education, Activism | 4/30/2010 | See Source »

...years have seen the arrival in Somalia of 200 to 300 young ethnic Somali men from the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, Norway and Sweden, migrants' children returning to their ancestral homeland, according to diplomatic and intelligence sources in East Africa. A Western soldier working in Somalia says these foreign-born Somalis now dominate al-Shabab. "All their cells are commanded by a foreigner," he says. "All tactical and strategic decisions are taken by foreigners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rise of Extremism in Somalia | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

Three childhood memories, three moments in modern Islamic history, all hanging on the childish belief that foreign-born solutions will work for the region. The West has spent decades hoping for and plotting a neat trajectory of Middle Eastern modernization. But whether vested in peace treaties or the Shah's imported pomp, those plans have never quite worked out. Not a SOFA agreement, not the Shah's speechifying about modernization, not a party in desert tents stocked with marble baths and champagne could sustain Jimmy Carter's mirage of an Iran that was "an island of security in a troubled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Middle East: A Time to Remember | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...trying to stoke nationalist sentiment to gain the support of right-wing voters. "In recent years, France has stopped its offensive of exporting its universal values globally, and shrunk into a defensive position that views everything outside it as threatening and corrupting," Naulleau says. "That now even includes most foreign-born French people, though clearly not the big shots like [former president] Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who hasn't faced the same problems I have despite having been born in Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now the French Must Prove They're French | 1/17/2010 | See Source »

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