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Muslims in Europe complain that they are suspect because they are Muslim. What do they expect? The people engaging in terrorism are advocates of radical Islam. BRONDI BEN-YOSEF Ness Ziona, Israel...
...Where Bush's agenda most resembles TR's is in its limitless ambition - its incessant busy-ness, its desperate need to appear to be addressing everything all at once. Even as he seeks the "end of tyranny in our world," Bush would also remake the government's entitlement system, rewrite the nation's tax code, reform its legal system, revolutionize worker training and health care; he would amend the constitution to define marriage and insert Washington into the nation's local schools as never before. In May, the administration celebrated one of its most trivial, and typical, programs - the Department...
...make-believe of storytelling; it can be an object apart from, and above, the typical narrative-movie experience. That is one of the lessons of an exemplary showcase like the NYAFF. So three, four, five cheers for a festival that celebrates the foreignness - the bizarre, excessive, utterly other-ness - of foreign films...
...newborns or sick relatives. If passed, the bill would mandate the most generous paid-leave policy in the U.S.; it is the first of 24 similar proposals pending this year. Family friendly and popular with female voters, most of the bills are enjoying wide, bipartisan support, says Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families. "We're seeing real movement toward more paid leave...
...statewide measures, Ness says, close gaps left by the federal Family and Medical Leave Act, which was once hailed as a pioneering win for families. The 1993 law grants 12 weeks of unpaid leave, but because it applies only to businesses with more than 50 employees, just 62% of workers--and only 24% of those making less than $30,000 a year--are eligible. (Many new paid-leave bills would apply to all businesses.) Among those who could legally go on leave under the federal policy, the vast majority, 78%, said they couldn't afford to take advantage...