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...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 a proud and confrontational response. In the U.K., where the Muslim prison population has doubled in the last decade...
...kind of player who lets easy pop flies drift over his mitt. All the same, Ethan is recruited to head a team being formed by the ferishers, a race of fairy folk who are struggling to prevent Coyote, Chabon's semiappealing Satan figure, from poisoning the waters that nourish the Tree of the World, which holds up the four worlds, which can be magically traversed by scampering around the Tree, which...Let's just say that when it comes to elaborate plotting, Proust has nothing on Chabon...
...bathwater may nourish Harvard’s lawns and paper cups may disappear from the dining halls if an environmental bill passed last night by the Undergraduate Council is adopted by the University...
...high, even when we have developed measures of prevention for all but the unthinkable, it is sometimes the unthinkable itself that emerges. These two particular “unthinkables” of the last two decades struck us in places where it hurt the most, in the places that nourish our confidence in the future: our wallets and our children...
...quote from your report: "Global warming could, paradoxically, throw the planet into another Ice Age." These doom-and-gloomers confuse even themselves. Perhaps these alarmists should ponder the idea that global climatic fluctuations are out of our control and that the God who has created the earth will also nourish it and sustain it. GARY HAERTEL Sussex...