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...Bardot was again convicted - this time for comments in her book Pluto's Square, whose chapter "Open Letter to My Lost France" grieved for "...my country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims." And in 2004, another Bardot book, A Cry In the Silence, again took up the question of immigration and Islam - ultimately running afoul of anti-racism laws by generally associating Islam with the 9/11 terror attacks, and denouncing the "Islamization of France" by people she described as "invaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Brigitte Bardot Bashing Islam? | 4/15/2008 | See Source »

...shake his hand. Show confidence." Other tips include learning to address everyone by their first name, and handling networking lunches and dinners. Another significant part is developing self-confidence. "Youngsters raised in lower-middle-class families and in smaller towns, when they manage to enter good colleges and land good jobs, still have to battle a feeling of inadequacy," says Srinath Gopalakrishna, co-founder and operations head of Bangalore-based ThinkVarsity Finishing School. "We try to do away with the left-brain, right-brain dichotomy and ensure our graduates have the entire range of technical and soft skills they need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dale Carnegie Comes to India | 4/15/2008 | See Source »

...terrible human and strategic consequences: no Iraqi state government, a full-blown ethnic showdown between Sunnis and Shiites, Kurdish independence leading to conflict with Turkey, and the discourse of Islamic extremism would be vindicated. In addition, this ‘Iraq-sized’ no-man’s land reminiscent of Somalia, would be between Israel and Iran. Where the proceeds of the sale of Iraq’s oil—currently at $109 a barrel—would go can only be imagined, but funding regional and international jihad is a plausible guess. All of this composes...

Author: By D. MORGAN Potts | Title: The Wrong Type of Peace | 4/14/2008 | See Source »

...infidels] will always be an enemy and you will remain so until the last drop of my blood," Sadr said in a statement responding to the comments by Gates. "If you don't withdraw from our land or set a timetable for withdrawal acceptable to the Iraqi people, we will resist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Front in the Sadr Standoff | 4/14/2008 | See Source »

...shattered after the December 27 vote. The ministers who join the new government will face daunting tasks. Economic growth is expected to be as low as 4% this year, down from nearly 7% last year. The 300,000 displaced have not returned to their homes, and resentments over ethnicity, land and resources still linger. Tension in the slums remains high. Kenya's population has exploded to more than 40 million, and the country is quickly running out of enough land for all its people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Kenyan Power-Share Plan Work? | 4/14/2008 | See Source »

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