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...from mainstream society and beset by domestic violence and religious extremism. This potent mix of economic and social deprivation, combined with unfolding events - the Palestinian intifadeh, the Iraq war and perceived stigmatization of Muslims in the war on terror - has led some young people to channel their anger into outright anti-Semitism. "The perpetrators of anti-Semitic attacks that have been caught have usually been lone petty thugs or informal groups of delinquents," says Gérard Fellous, secretary-general of the N.C.C.H.R. "So far, there's been no sign of membership or organization by extremist political or Islamist groups...
...July 11 polling day, voters responded, handing the DPJ 50 of the 121 seats contested, for a net gain of 12 seats. The LDP, meanwhile, won only 49-falling embarrassingly short even of its modest 51-seat goal. Although outright control of the government was never in question because the LDP retains a majority of the parliamentary seats that weren't up for election, the outcome has been a major blow to Koizumi, one that may cripple his ability to push through many of the financial-reform initiatives he has declared crucial to the remainder of his term (which...
...including Belgium, Denmark, Ireland and Britain. If any one of them votes it down, it technically fails as a treaty. In other words, the "ever-closer union" to which the E.U.'s founders aspired is once again rubbing up against the public's mix of apathy, doubt and outright hostility - and the heat from that friction could make the new constitution go up in flames. The European Parliament elections a few days before the summit provided the first fires. With turnout across the E.U. its lowest ever - and in the new member states averaging an appalling 26% - Euro-skeptics...
...year removed from a season that featured not one, but two outright national championships—in both team racing and coed dinghy competition—Harvard’s coed sailors were faced in 2003-2004 with the admirable task of repeating excellence...
...They only printed any entries where Norah may have been frustrated or just plain having a bad day,” the social studies concentrator wrote in an e-mail to the Crimson. “They apparently did everything short of outright calling her a terrorist and unstable...