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...government. She believes programs like language lessons should be bolstered to help "people to feel a part of society." But Muslims have to do their bit too. Roald broke off ties with non-Muslim friends after her conversion. "I regret it," she says. "The only way for Muslims to succeed in this society is to be part of it" - her Palestinian-born husband is a local councilor in Malmö. Hopes also rest on the next generation. Roald's three teenage children mix comfortably with both Muslims and non-Muslims. "They have the religious way of Islam and the Norwegian...
...Harvard, some females see cheating as a way to succeed in the dating pool. Lily, one senior, says that she sees competition play out most simply by the way guys treat girls who are already involved with someone else...
Historians have long complained that Kennedy's inner circle has been secretive and worse about his health. While preparing his 1993 book President Kennedy: Profile of Power, Richard Reeves requested access to J.F.K.'s medical records but was refused. He did succeed in interviewing the surgeons who performed the 1954 back operation, as well as Dr. Hans Kraus, who oversaw J.F.K.'s physical therapy in the last months of his presidency. "All of them told me they were asked to destroy certain records," says Reeves. "And they...
There may be other problems as well—Murphy has noted in the past that the administration of a school has to commit to a football program in order for it to succeed. Who knows what problems Columbia has had in that department—from recruitment, to scheduling, to the school’s general attitude toward its team. In a league in which coaches are “relieved,” not fired, these details rarely make their way to the press...
...Jakarta International School has added a three-meter-high "blast wall," a "boom gate" in front of the school and protective security film over all exterior windows. It is a depressing truth, says Ken Conboy, country manager for security-consulting firm Control Risks Group, that even if such measures succeed in deterring an attack at the school, there is no shortage of alternative targets. "Terrorists go for the lowest common denominator," he says. "If the schools look harder to crack, they'll go for other soft targets like churches, where the level of security is mostly lip service...