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...Muslim traditionalists. A recent report from the London-based Institute of Race Relations chronicles scores of campaigns against plans to build mosques across Europe. In 2007, a petition posted on British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's website calling for the government to scrap plans to build a mega-mosque on an 18-acre (7 ha) plot near the site of London's 2012 Olympics drew over 275,000 signatures. That same year, members of Italy's anti-immigrant Northern League party "blessed," as they called it, a site reserved for a mosque in Padua by parading on it with...
Finding the funds to meet applicants' unprecedented financial need this year is a tall order for all but a handful of mega-wealthy schools, and as colleges decide how much they can afford to give, many worry they won't have enough to attract a full freshman class. Because private undergraduate colleges draw an average of 60% of their operating costs from tuition revenue, a student shortfall could cause a painful budget crunch, forcing schools to cut programs, slash faculty salaries and potentially raise tuition for students already enrolled. With admissions letters in the mail, many colleges are as nervous...
...Housing prices are dipping, but not collapsing like in other places. New York malls have held up relatively well. Xanadu's location, amid the confluence of some of the country's most congested road arteries, should also help. Surely a few curious drivers will want to check out the mega-mall. Plus, the state has built a rail line to the site; it's now just a 23-min. ride to Xanadu from Manhattan. Traditionally, city residents without cars cringe at the thought of crossing the Hudson to the Meadowlands, since public transportation to the site has been so abysmal...
...This is changing fast. The sewers and maglevs and suspension bridges and e-governance systems and mechanized farming and mega power plants are springing up in the greatest story ever told...
...Jonas Wergeland, born into an underprivileged family, had only one dream: conquest. He had an indescribable and all-consuming need to prove that he was someone special and that he could seduce the hearts of a nation. He even managed to win the hearts of the people with a mega-popular television show. Yet his weakness for power and narcissistic self-obsession twisted his personage beyond any other explanation but one: a demon.“The Conqueror,” Jan Kjaerstad’s second book in a trilogy that also includes “The Seducer?...