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...pattern applicable to all countries, but some - Germany, France and the Netherlands, for example - are now planning to help select and train "homegrown" imams instead of relying on a supply of less acculturated clerics from nations such as Turkey and Algeria. European politicians are beginning to recognize, as the German Interior Minister said recently, that moderate Muslims are the best possible defense against religious extremism and its violent wing. "We need the cooperation of the Muslim organizations," Wolfgang Schäuble said in Berlin, "to fight against extremists from their own ranks...
...slash spending when Russia's financial crisis hit in 1998. The birthrate collapsed in the 1990s and has only now begun to turn upward again, helped by incentives including 15 months' maternity leave on full pay. And while the nation has prospered by linking its currency to the German mark in the 1990s and to the euro this decade, it is paying a price for not having a monetary policy of its own: it is very limited in its ability to bring inflation down from its current 5%. That rate is the only remaining impediment to Estonia adopting the euro...
...every episode (“In fashion, one day you’re in, and the next day you’re out”). But in the case of Heidi Klum’s lines, it’s at least delivered with varying degrees of both German accent and melodrama.…Vie with each other to seduce a washed-out ’90s rapper.There are few reality shows that are genuinely ridiculous enough that there’s no need to make fun of them. VH1’s “Flavor of Love?...
...Besides flagging important themes for the reader, the titles make up a required reading list more expansive than an average English class. Pessl transforms nouns to verbs (“triple-lutzed”, “couch potatoed”), recites “Casablanca” and German poetry, and boasts an impressive and oft-quoted literary collection; she peppers the text with nods to real historical heroes (Winston Churchill) and imagined ones (“the late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist and social observer”). Several hand-drawn visual aids?...
...cultural marvels have traditionally been the main destination of Europeans relocating to Morocco, coastal cities and towns like Agadir, Essaouira, Tangier and increasingly Rabat have become booming real estate markets with the arrival of house-hunting pensioners in recent years. French transplants remain the largest group, but Italian and German seniors are also getting in on the rush - and the British contingent is becoming active in the higher-end sector. But as in any hot market, increased activity means rising prices. "Certain properties in beach areas have increased from €100 to €300 per square meter in three years...