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...face in 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...
...hoping to start programs aimed at closing the achievement gap between black and white students. “We’re trying to understand and perhaps help racial differences in test scores by giving incentives to kids in elementary school,” Fryer said. Karen C. C. Dalton, the Institute’s assistant director, is on medical leave, and William Casey King, the executive director will be leaving his post. King could not be reached for comment last night.Fryer isn’t the only faculty member taking up a new role at the Institute. Visiting Professor...
...easily resurrected." In fact, some experts say, these reminders of childhood may be so appealing because that era was--at least until the boomers started raising their own kids--the most child-centered in history. "Industry and communities focused on these cherished progeny," notes Purdue University family-studies scholar Karen Fingerman. "Communities built schools to educate them, and toy companies generated trinkets to amuse them...
...cure-all for all schools. Yale University, for one, says that banning early admissions just isn't necessary and insists its early admissions process is fair. "I worry because the entire country will read about this and think this is what higher education is up to," says Karen Giannino, the senior associate dean of admissions at Colgate University, who states the university has no intention of changing its admissions policies...
...Perkins family's dispute--which has cost the district $191,000 in legal fees--school administrators say the parents are penalizing the district for Luke's behavior off campus. "The issues that they had were really surrounding home," says Karen Pielin, the district's special-ed director. Teachers from Berthoud went to the Perkinses' house to help get Luke on a schedule that would reinforce what he was learning at school. But Luke's father Jeff, a rheumatologist, said that even though they tried hard, the competing needs of their three other children made it impossible to keep Luke...