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...also soaring. The N.C.C.H.R. shows attacks and threats to Arabs rising from 164 in 2003 to 256 for the first six months of 2004 - about double the recent annual average. "The explosion of racist and anti-Semitic acts in our nation is a reality we mustn't try to hide," government spokesman Jean-François Copé said last week. "It's a reality we must fight." To do so, France must gain a better understanding of who the victims and perpetrators of these attacks are. Statistics show that since 2000, France's 650,000-strong Jewish community...
...inquiries from foreign companies about setting up in Austria skyrocketed. Perhaps that's what has Schröder so worried. Suzanne Rosselet of the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook suggests that calls for tax harmonization have the problem backwards. "It's a fog behind which they are trying to hide the true problems in their own economies," she says. "They need to reform themselves before they put the blame on all the other economies...
This is a season to savor for its many gifts. We have license to run and hide, hold the mail, introspect; but there is something about this year that calls us to do the opposite. If we all go on a retreat, merely peeking at the pageants of the Olympics, the party conventions, it will be with the knowledge of what awaits us when we get back. We'll need to have recharged because we are living history now, making historic choices. It is not the crisp midwinter, when we have to be serious. But this summer, maybe we should...
...blacks had been superficial. "I thought we were friends, but I never had them over to my house, and they never had me to theirs," she says. She never knew of her ancestor Eston. That is because Eston was light-skinned enough to pass for white. In order to hide his connection with his darker-skinned Hemings relatives, he changed his name to E.H. Jefferson and cut ties with his black family. Westerinen finally discovered her connection in 1974, after Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History, a biography by Fawn Brodie, uncovered the details of the Hemings family...
...Westerners to help develop the country's oil sector and attract investment. The latest violence could drive more of them away. The U.S. embassy has recommended that all Americans leave the kingdom. Many of those who are staying say they are growing beards and donning local robes to hide their identities. As for the Saudi leaders, a U.S. official says they do not yet face a direct threat to their rule. But, he says, "there could be a long period of violence that is almost impossible to defend against...