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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...
...elected a Chancellor determined to improve relations with the U.S. Since George W. Bush came to office, polls have shown that Europeans blame him personally more than the U.S. in general for what ails U.S.-European ties. The Transatlantic Trends survey conducted in 12 European countries for the German Marshall Fund of the United States, released last month, found that only 18% of Europeans approve of the way Bush handles international affairs. Nevertheless, 37% think U.S. leadership in world affairs is generally desirable - still a low number (down from 64% in 2002), but more than double Bush's personal score...
...European Union to take root and prosper; their grandparents might remember G.I.s bearing nylons and Hershey bars. I have seen the power of such sentiments myself. When I was a high school exchange student in 1972, I had a rollicking argument with a train compartment full of East German teenagers about "imperialist America." But when I gave one of the girls a John F. Kennedy half-dollar, she broke into tears and gave me a big kiss. How many European teenagers today would feel that way about any American President? For Europeans to have less need...
...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?...