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...constantly threatened by political, economic and demographic shifts in the Arab world. An ingredient is the continuing population explosion among Muslims. The planet's population is due to increase by more than a billion people by 2015, most of the net gain being in the cities of the Third World where they're unlikely to feel much of the "trickle down" benefit of globalization. In addition, the report notes frankly that most oil-producing states in the Arab world are unlikely to spend much of their wealth on the needs of their poor citizens - ironically, an issue receiving more attention...
...school principal and wrote his doctoral thesis on Nietzsche. But as the leading Islamic thinker among Europe's second- and third-generation Muslim immigrants, the Geneva-based university lecturer also inspires a good deal of mistrust--from both Arab Muslims for his Western sensibility and Westerners for his controversial Islamic roots. Ramadan, 38, is the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, founder, in 1928, of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic revival movement that spread from Egypt throughout the Arab world, criticizing Western decadence and advocating a return to Muslim values. Yet Ramadan says, "I'm a European who has grown...
...Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District," by Ben Katchor This third collection of the weekly strip "Julius Knipl: Real Estate Photographer" provides us with the closest thing to comic book poetry around. Katchor has created a romantic urban world where a place like the beauty-supply district consists of businesses that provide detailed recommendations for the beautifying of a customer's proffered objects. Dreamy, sweet and melancholy, each Knipl strip reads like an ode to a lost world...
...ranked first by US News and World Report, the Financial Times, and Forbes, and third in the Business Week ranking...
APPOINTED. THEODORE MCCARRICK, 70, Archbishop of Newark, advocate for debt relief in Third World countries and supporter of immigration; to head the high-profile Archdiocese of Washington. McCarrick succeeds retiring Cardinal James Hickey. Like all bishops, McCarrick is expected to resign...