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...rights. In Paris, a young Algerian woman is suing her employer for unlawful dismissal after she was fired for refusing to adjust her headscarf. Europe is home to some 12.5 million Muslims who suffer high unemployment - and, since Sept. 11 - growing mistrust from non-Muslims. One sign of the tension came when the French government tried to create a representative council for French Islam. French Muslim organizations were set to choose their representatives last June, but Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy canceled the elections. The reason: the vote would have given the majority to the Union of French Islamic Organizations (UOIF...
...Bergmann also acknowledged that politics—notably brewing tension over the loss of the Rieman Dance Center—helped convince her to stay...
...Levy ’06, another IGP performer—joke constantly during downtime at rehearsals. “In the extreme scenes we’re in,” Levy says, “and in dealing with a span of three generations, it helps ease the tension when we know we can be comfortable and joke around with each other...
...press releases Modi distributed, had been lost when 16th century Islamic Mughal conquerors built a mosque over the temple's ruins. The demolition of the mosque and the restoration of the temple was henceforth the core concern of virtually every Indian. A nationalist tide of wounded pride swept India. Tension between Hindus and Muslims soared. RSS membership hit 4.5 million, and the BJP burst onto center stage. In December 1992, in a spectacular demonstration of religious fervor, a crowd of Hindu demonstrators broke down fences protecting the mosque, climbed onto its three domes and, within hours, tore it apart brick...
HRDC President Daniel A. Cozzens ’03 recalled this season’s Common Casting, saying that tension resulted from the large numbers of students from other colleges and community members that were cast in the season’s shows...