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...element of its identity. "All these states had trouble balancing religion with secularism long before Sept. 11," she says. "So you have to ask, Why now? What is European and what is not?" That's a question Sauer and other researchers hope to answer with the veil project, a three-year study of head-scarf policies in eight countries - including Britain, France and Turkey - funded by the European Commission...
...white residents. Working for Education Bradford, the private company that runs Bradford's schools, Angie Kotler noticed that the inner-city students, who are over 90% nonwhite, had little contact with the students attending the majority-white schools on the periphery. So she set up the Schools Linking Project, twinning schools and having their students meet up regularly to play sports, put on an opera or plant an allotment. "The younger kids ask about things like Eid and Christmas, how they are similar, how they are different," says Kotler. "The older kids will show their frustrations with the tensions around...
...they seem happy to oblige in numerous ways. The new Somali Forum brings together members of a dozen different Somali organizations to ensure there's no overlap of services, and that no council funding or volunteer man hours are wasted. The Living Under One Sun project helps women of many cultures, often recently arrived in Britain. "There are many things women want to do, but don't know how to start," says Aynur Erisir, a Kurdish Turk who volunteers for the project. "Do you say 'Hi' to your neighbor, or not? Do you smile or not? You don't know...
...Unlike [Chu], who luckily got to go back to Harvard—I got to do that after [the] 2002 [Olympics]—I’m working full-time.”Ruggiero is working for the New York Islanders of the NHL, directing Project Hope, which aims to promote youth hockey in China. In addition to her professional commitments, Ruggiero finds the time to train and stay in hockey shape, and is looking forward to returning to competition. “It’s an honor obviously to be a part of my seventh World Championship...
...Latin School had tried to keep Conant out—his mother said he couldn’t spell—Harvard invited him in. Until 1953, the chemist and self-made man would promote the sciences, standardization, and academic scholarships, and often worked off-campus on the Manhattan Project. Conant’s successor Nathan M. Pusey ’28, had a strong presence at Harvard, and not just for academic reasons. An August 8, 1953 headline from the Boston Globe stated that, according to the “girls,” Pusey...