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...parents' old Islamic ways and an unaccepting modern Dutch society. "They're living between two different worlds," says Van Houcke. "They can feel in 1,001 ways that we consider them lower than us." Driven by economics as well as culture, the conflict between well-off native Dutch and poorer Muslim immigrants has simmered for about five years, says Dutch professor Maurits Berger. There is "fear and suspicion that anything Islamic is incompatible with Dutch society," he says. "If Jews, Catholics and Chinese can live here and adhere to the democratic rules, so can Muslims...
...Outside groups (and some groups connected to the inside) have taken up this deplorable shadow campaign, which unfortunately strikes at the legitimacy of any and all electoral results. The barrage of dirty tricks marring this election cycle is staggering in both scope and frequency—and democracy is poorer...
...seemed to draw new vigor, and by the time he announced Labor's key education policy later that week, the Opposition leader was shaking off his "Mogadon Man" tag. This plan, including a so-called "Robin Hood" redistribution of $A520 million in funding from 67 wealthy private schools to poorer private schools, was perhaps the most hotly debated of the campaign, derided by the Prime Minister as "old-fashioned class warfare" and defended by Labor as a return to the "fair go" ethic it placed at the heart of its campaign...
...lost more luggage there than I care to mention, it is devoid of skylights that might help travelers’ body clocks travel over the Pacific a little faster and it has peculiarly bad food—worse than a number of regional airports in decidedly poorer countries. It is the sort of place where you just want to listen to music and make your few hours of layover pass as quickly as possible...
...even make a footnote in a biography of his life. In truth, what is most disheartening about the whole affair is that Tribe’s colleagues let him down for 19 years by allowing the plagiarism to pass by without scrutiny. All of academia is poorer...