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...immigrant backlash, Islamophobia and militant separatism, says Uddipana Goswami, a social scientist at Jawaharlal Nehru University who has written extensively about the northeast. Ethnic Assamese political parties and separatist groups like the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) have all taken up the anti-immigrant cause, as have other non-Muslim minorities. A series of bomb attacks in the state capital Guwahati on Oct. 30, 2008, killed more than 60 people, and local police say that militants agitating for an ethnic Bodo homeland, who have clashed violently with local Muslims, are to blame. In this environment, no one bothers...
...Here in France there is a Stepford Wives social pressure that is unimaginable elsewhere. I have lived here since 2006 and am aware of female peer pressure to conform to images considered permissible, laudable and responsible for women. Due to my traveling as an aid worker, being non-French and divorced, all sorts of labels are thrown at me, making it impossible to do almost anything alone. How sad when women have laudable goals and yet members of their own sex want to harm them with their own parochial meanness. Good for you, Ms. Dati, as you struggle to defend...
...What They're Banning in Tuscany: In what has been dubbed "culinary racism," the city council of Lucca, in Italy's Tuscany region, has passed rules denying licenses to new non-Italian restaurants in the town center. Food items such as kebabs, Peking duck and even McDonald's meals are out. City leaders say the change is meant only to safeguard Lucca's traditional cultural identity...
...Johansson, thought to have so little chance that he was a 4-1 underdog, unsheathed his vaunted right hand--which he called his "toonder and lightning"--in the third round, driving Patterson to the floor. Six more times he made Patterson one with the canvas, becoming the first non-American in 25 years to hold the heavyweight championship...
...Livio’s biggest hurdle to overcome with “Is God a Mathematician?” is making over two millennia of high-level mathematical discoveries accessible to the reader who has never studied the more inscrutable and elaborate non-Euclidean geometry or knot theory. And it would seem that if anyone is primed for success in this difficult endeavor, it’s Livio, who is both an astrophysicist and the head of the Office of Public Outreach at the Hubble Space Telescope Institute. But while his approach is appealing to any curious reader, his inability...