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...Italy's Education Ministry has appealed the ruling, and a judge has temporarily suspended the original decision, delaying the removal of the crucifix until at least Nov. 19. In France, the case of the teenage sisters Lila and Alma Lévy-Omari - expelled last month from the Henri-Wallon public high school in suburban Paris for wearing their head scarves, or hijab - has refocused attention on a cultural fracture that began in the late 1980s. Critics claim that's when Islamic fundamentalists seized on head scarves as a symbol of women's affiliation with their hard-line beliefs; others...
...define precisely what it meant by "ostentatious or militant" displays, and the Education Ministry left it up to individual schools to determine what was a violation and what was not. The result: some French schools ban head scarves entirely, while others have no problem with them. Still others, like Henri-Wallon, allow what history and geography teacher Philippe Darriulat calls a "compromise scarf" that leaves the head only partially covered. (That's the one the other dozen students in the school are allowed to wear.) But Lila and her 16-year-old sister wear a hijab that covers everything except...
Pakistan?s government has recently had to contend with charges that its military and intelligence services continue to aid the Taliban, and also that it may have exported nuclear technology to North Korea. Now, celebrated French intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy has suggested that even the plot to murder American journalist Danny Pearl may have reached the upper tiers of government in Islamabad...
...Weill--or that Weill's gibes were in fun. Never mind too that Weill, Prince and Willumstad spent the weekend at Weill's country home in the Adirondacks in upstate New York celebrating the succession plan over a meal of sea bass and a rare magnum of 1966 Henri Voillot Pommard from Weill's cellar. This is business, and Weill has been spectacularly good and merciless at it, even at the cost of some of his closest business relationships...
...Died. Nicolas Freeling, 76, British crime writer whose Dutch detective character Piet Van der Valk and French sleuth Henri Castang propelled dozens of popular novels; in eastern France. Freeling wrote nearly 40 books and was credited with elevating the crime genre by creating probing examinations of complex personalities...