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...says Sharon Merrow Cuseo, dean at Los Angeles' Harvard-Westlake Academy. "I think of my students as cynical consumers of college propaganda, but they love that personal touch. They come in and say, 'Jeez, look at this note they wrote me. It's good to be wanted.'" She can map the change in priorities based on the school's spring 2006 college tour. Five years ago, they just did the northeast. This year the group, after visiting a campus or two in New York, split into two parts. The first went south to University of Richmond, Davidson, William and Mary...
...Would negotiations with Iran and Hizballah persuade them to give up their attempts to wipe Israel off the map? I doubt that. History teaches us that it is important to believe the declared intentions of megalomaniacs. Jeffrey Fillman Boston...
...Clintons' presence. "There's a real sense of pride now, of propriety," says Andrea Klausner, president of the Chappaqua School Foundation. And if there's one thing nearly everyone in town is keen to tell you, it's that the Clintons' arrival has put their little hamlet on the map. "You used to say, 'Chappaqua,' and people would ask, 'Is that where Kennedy drove off the bridge?'" says George Haletzky, a manager at Lange's who has lived in town since 1961. "It was a quiet, sleepy town...
Every Mediterranean seaside destination has its own particular appeal: the soft sands of Mykonos, cliffside views in Portofino, non-stop nightlife in St. Tropez. The tiny island of Lampedusa, the southernmost dot on Italy's map, is prized above all for the crystal clarity of its turquoise waters. But this same stretch of Mediterranean is rapidly acquiring a much darker notoriety. Once again this summer, as both Italian and foreign sun-lovers soak up their beach holidays, boatloads of would-be immigrants from North Africa have been aiming for Lampedusa's coastline in a desperate attempt to reach European shores...
...reasons converts give for making the change vary widely. But one common refrain is that in an increasingly secular world in which society's rules get looser by the day, Islam provides a detailed moral map covering everything from friendships to protecting the environment. And for Western youths, taking up Islam can also serve as an outlet for rebellion. A majority of converts, especially in Western Europe, are in their late teens or 20s. "Islam is a kind of refuge for those who are downtrodden and disenfranchised because it has become the religion of the oppressed," says Farhad Khosrokhavar...