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Your cover story quoted European Muslims complaining about mistrust and discrimination [Feb. 11]. Mistrust is understandable: while most Muslims are not terrorists, most terrorists are Muslims. If moderate Muslims would condemn and speak out against terrorism, mistrust would vanish. Same for discrimination: Muslim women wearing head scarves are signaling, Look how different I am! Neither Protestants nor Catholics make such a show of their faith. If Muslim women chose to follow a less extremist interpretation of Koranic rules, they would no longer suffer from discrimination. Nicolas Gessner, PARIS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe's Muslims and Mistrust | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

...onto the inevitability of the system.It is unclear to what extent the characters in the novella are conscious of the role they play in the proceedings. A vague sense of emergency lies at the very foundations of the totalitarian state: “We didn’t speak about it: there was nothing to say, but we just knew...We had an atrocity to prevent.” With this vague decree as their unwavering motto, Martens and his colleagues sense that the Salinas is guilty, before they even know what he’s guilty of. Vagueness...

Author: By Anna I. Polonyi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kertész Sleuths Human Cruelty | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

...altogether clear how this policy change was decided. (Jake Olkkola, the Manager of Harvard Recreation, did not return my many requests for comment, and a monitor I spoke to at the QRAC was also unwilling to speak on record to me about it.) In an official announcement that was circulated over various House lists, the Athletic Department declared that the policy had been implemented for “equality reasons,” adding that “whether it is for overall comfort or religious purposes we wanted to offer an opportunity for women to work out without...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: No Boys Allowed | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

...Musharraf, for his part, disparaged the surveys, accusing international pollsters of disturbing the peace. "Do not incite trouble in Pakistan by prejudging election results, by creating hopes and expectations that may be unrealistic," he said Thursday. "Let the results speak for themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan Braces for Election Trouble | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

...centuries. These days, you generally hear candidates say we should choose them for their judgment; they don't say, Vote for me, and I'll vote the way you tell me to. "I don't listen to polls," candidates boast, but polls are the way the people speak to their officials-and if you simply substitute the words the people for the word polls, candidates would be saying "I don't listen to the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richard Stengel: The Superdelegate Conundrum | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

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