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...Europe's policy of "appeasement" toward "intolerant" Islam, says Bawer, Europe faces "a long twilight of Balkanization with Europe divided into warring pockets of Muslims and non-Muslims." A new best-selling volume from Denmark titled Islamists and the Naive strikes a similar chord. Its co-author, Karen Jespersen, is a former Interior Minister with Denmark's Social Democrats, a party often associated with policies friendly to Muslim immigrants. The threat posed by Muslim fundamentalism in the 21st century is comparable, Jespersen writes, to the twin scourges of the past century, Nazism and communism - other forms of "totalitarianism." Left-wing...
...exit had ever been planned. What is more important than the medals Kerry received is that he was in Vietnam voluntarily serving his country. President Bush was not. Now we need a Commander in Chief who personally knows what it is like to fight a war. Mary S. Jespersen Bogense, Denmark For Plain Speaking Joe Klein's column on John Kerry's reluctance to make statements that are controversial or negative, heeding the advice of his political consultants, was right on target [Aug. 30]. Kerry is headed for defeat because he seems to be no more than a politician...
...many books on proper English usage already exist-Strunk, Fowler, Jespersen, Evans, Mencken-that the appearance of yet another is a case of meeting an unfelt need. One dependable authority in this field, like one telephone company, should be enough, and the English-speaking world has had one since British Lexicographer Henry...
Even some of Kenya's fabled white hunters are beginning to pull up stakes and leave. Two of the most prominent, Albert and Fred Bartlett, have sold their farm near Mount Kenya to make a new life in Australia; Ken Jespersen is in the U.S. seeking work; Eric Rungren, a veteran elephant hunter, may move to California or Florida and grow oranges. All this promises further damage to the faltering economy, by discouraging foreign tourists...
Died. Dr. Jens Otto Harry Jespersen, 82, philologist; in Roskilde, Denmark...