Word: jeane
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...role in coordinating 2002's World Conference Against Racism, otherwise known as the Durban conference in South Africa, which was widely viewed as discriminatory itself. Some of Obama's less controversial choices include the late gay-rights activist Harvey Milk, world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, tennis great Billie Jean King, South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Senator Ted Kennedy and actor Sidney Poitier...
...inexorable spread, from the New York City tenements of the 1970s to the streets of São Paolo in 2009. Pioneers like PHASE 2 and Seen, who by the 1980s were transforming New York subway cars into traveling canvases, here reproduce their works in full scale. Pieces by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring from the same period reveal graffiti's impact on fine art. Rare films and headlines describe the deaths (spray-painting on busy subway lines is hazardous) and municipal cleanup efforts that ended graffiti's golden age, at least in New York, by 1989. (See TIME...
...According to Jean-Christophe Dumont, an international migration specialist for the OECD, the longer wait could mean the new test actually has the opposite of its intended effect. He points to studies carried out in Europe, the U.S. and Canada that have shown that once granted citizenship, immigrants perform markedly better in the job market than they did while they were waiting to get their passports. "The less certitude there is - the longer the process takes - the less an immigrant might invest in his host country," he says...
...Muslim immigrants. The attitude is: “If you want to stay in our country, then adopt our customs, language, and values, or else go home.” These arguments, common currency now in Europe, used to be confined to extreme-right parties like that of Jean-Marie Le Pen in France...
Marine Le Pen Party: Front National Policies: Like her father, Jean-Marie, she argues for halting immigration ? and restoring the death penalty. Diverges from him by supporting women's rights, abortion and the creation of a "French Islam" Quote: "I have a very social vision of politics, and there are leftist voters who identify with my positions" - Le Pen explains her popular appeal...