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...further isolating Muslims and fueling the perception that their faith and culture are under siege. People on both sides of the debate agree that the most serious divisions within French society spring not from head scarves but from economic and social inequality. "There isn't a single Muslim in Parliament to vote on this law and not a single Arab among all the country's mayors," laments conservative politician and civil rights activist Zaïr Kedadouche. "France is broken." Consider these signs of fracture: unemployment in the banlieue often runs at more than double the national level...
Scandinavians are nevertheless asking themselves if their model corporate culture is going the way of Enron and Parmalat. The countries can barely accept the notion. "We thought that corruption might happen in Germany or the United States, but never here," says Per Bill, a Member of the Swedish Parliament. Confidence in big business in Sweden has fallen from 60% in 1995 to just 28% last year, according to Swedish pollster SIFO. "There is a severe crisis in public confidence in the business sector," says Erik Asbrink, who heads a five-member commission appointed by the Swedish government to restore trust...
Raphael Cazenave is an unlikely supporter of the pending ban on Islamic veils and other religious symbols in public schools, which was passed by the lower house of the French Parliament on Feb. 10. A youth counselor and lifelong resident of Paris banlieues - the poor, often violent and ethnically diverse housing developments on the outskirts of France's big cities - Cazenave, 30, might be expected to defend the right of Muslim girls to wear head scarves at school. But he backs the ban, and even wants the government to go further. "This law is a Band-Aid stuck...
There isn't a single Muslim in Parliament to vote on this law and not a single Arab among all the country's mayors ... France is broken...
...reformists' boycott is, in a sense, a strategic withdrawal. "It is better to side with the people than to cling to power," Khatami's brother Reza, leader of the largest reformist party, told TIME. "The next parliament will be undemocratic, but that doesn't mean democracy in Iran has failed." Maybe not, but judging by the election fiasco, its success is still a long...