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...party has also proposed banning Muslims from erecting minarets, which Schlüer says is "a political symbol." More than 50,000 people have already signed that petition. And Schlüer says the party is keen to abolish a federal law banning racial incitement and discrimination, and to ban Muslim girls from wearing headscarves in public schools. "In school we want to see their faces," Schlüer says, adding: "And it is part of our constitution that everybody is equal...
...whether it’s actually the same cloth that Larry wore, but it’s meant to emulate the garb of a Puritan minister... It’s completely unlike any other University president’s.” Those Puritans were always known for their keen fashion sense...
...that the academy is keen to be just a carbon copy of a New England prep school. The campus's Levantine-style white stone buildings - and the tight security at its main gate - remind visitors that they're not in Massachusetts anymore. Arabic-language classes are mandatory, and humanities courses, though though taught in English, draw on the canonical works of many civilizations...
...chief no doubt sees protracted life as pretty good. (At 52, Roberts is 35 years younger than the court's oldest Justice, John Paul Stevens, and is surely the first Chief Justice whose schedule has included back-to-school night at his children's grade school.) His combination of keen intelligence and undeniable charm is such that another of his college professors, the liberal lion Laurence Tribe, continues to extol Roberts' "wisdom" even as he laments the conservative course the Roberts court has taken...
Roger Barrett, founder of the Beijing-based Korea Business Consultants and one of the few Westerners to regularly do business in Pyongyang, says the North seems eager to court new investment. "The D.P.R.K. government is very keen to demonstrate that joint ventures are welcomed," he says. Barrett, who has been facilitating business deals in the North for more than a decade, compares the country's current condition to that of South Korea's before it emerged from military rule to become one of the world's export powerhouses. "You start to see how North Korea can move along in similar...