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Like the city of Cambridge, Franzen's characters embody many different facets and textures. His religious fundamentalist, Reverend Stites, is kind and smart. No matter how hard you try, you just can't hate him. Louis' sister Eileen--a B-School alum--is greedy and conniving, but she is more like a lost and pathetic child than anything else...
...anonymous source, who is an expert on South East Asian politics, says the Malay government is becoming more fundamentalist. "There is a group of hunters and gatherers on the Malay peninsula, the Orangasli, that have their own religion. I've heard that officials have said, 'Once they become Muslim, our work is done,'" he says...
...Malaysia's a Muslim country and is growing more fundamentalist," says Charles H. Abelmann, a friend of the Kitingans. "The federal government doesn't like having a Christian state in a Muslim government...
...unease of Arab, African and European onlookers. Neighboring Tunisia and Morocco feel particularly threatened by the Islamic vote. Across the Mediterranean, Spain, Italy and France are girding for waves of fleeing Algerians to wash up on their shores. And throughout the Arab world, there are fears that such fundamentalist successes will inspire Islamic radicals at home...
...often happens in the Middle East, there was a last-minute hitch. Sources in Damascus confirm that Anderson's release was delayed seven hours because a hard-line faction within Islamic Jihad advocated holding on to him as a bargaining chip. Anderson was freed only after fundamentalist leaders reined in the dissident faction...