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...because they look to it as a breeding ground for the next generation of terrorists. For all the achievements of their democracies, most European states still lack the knack for pluralism. The Continent's immigrant Muslim communities grew up, to a large extent, from guest workers and postcolonial émigrés grateful for the stability and prosperity of postwar Europe. Too many of their children, though, nourish the wounds of social and economic exclusion. For them, militant Islam provides an identity and an explanation for their inferior status; it gives a powerful voice to their resentment, and defines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Place at the Table | 12/8/2002 | See Source »

...death penalty, abolished in 1999, for anyone convicted in the assassination attempt. Detainees interrogated by the police are reported to have said the attack was set up by four former government officials, including ex-central bank chairman and former Deputy Prime Minister Khudaiberdy Orazov. All four are émigrés and active members of the anti-Niyazov opposition. Orazov, who is chairman of the Vatan (Motherland) opposition movement, dismisses the alleged attempt as "a filthy provocation" concocted by the regime to smear its opponents. "The years of Niyazov's rule have ruined Turkmenistan," Orazov told TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 12/1/2002 | See Source »

...decide who is the next president of the United States," says David London. The 36-year old registered Republican from Broward County, Fla., has been living in the Jewish state for almost a decade, and his absentee ballot - along with some 100 others dispatched by South Floridian émigrés - may help determine the outcome of the U.S. presidential race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Floridian Israelis May Hold the Balance | 11/15/2000 | See Source »

...decide who is the next president of the United States," says David London. The 36-year old registered Republican from Broward County, Fla., has been living in the Jewish state for almost a decade, and his absentee ballot - along with some 100 others dispatched by South Floridian émigrés - may help determine the outcome of the U.S. presidential race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Floridian Israelis May Hold the Balance | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...Although the whole of Africa collectively took home 34 medals, the same as seventh-place Italy, that also doesn't tell the whole story of that continent's Olympic prowess. The African diaspora - the descendants of slaves shipped to the New World and émigré former colonial subjects - accounted for masses more. How many of the U.S. medals, for example, were won by people of African origin? Well, let's see: There's most of the Dream Team and the women's basketball team; there's Marion Jones; there's Maurice Greene... need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ¡Ay, Caramba! Or, How Cuba Almost Won the Olympics | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

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