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...Islamists and the Naive strikes a similar chord. Its co-author, Karen Jespersen, is a former Interior Minister with Denmark's Social Democrats, a party often associated with policies friendly to Muslim immigrants. The threat posed by Muslim fundamentalism in the 21st century is comparable, Jespersen writes, to the twin scourges of the past century, Nazism and communism - other forms of "totalitarianism." Left-wing intellectuals across Europe are increasingly split over the perceived danger posed by fundamentalist Islam, with some embracing multicultural integration while others loudly raise the alarm over the perceived threat to liberal values. Together with xenophobic parties...
...year-old hails from the small agricultural town of Morenhoven, Germany, and is the child of a broken marriage. His paternal grandparents have died, but he has a second set of maternal grandparents, courtesy of his dad Dieter's second wife Astrid. That marriage has also produced twin half brothers, Marius and Daniel, aged 5, while his biological mother Eva has gone on to have a daughter, Anna, 7, with a new partner. Felix lives with his father but spends most weekends and holidays with his mother. His father puts a positive spin on the situation. Felix now has regular...
...York City lawyer Judith Kurzweil is juggling a lot of balls. She works full time and has twin daughters, 10, at home--and more than two years ago, her mother Irene, 86 and struggling with her health, moved in with the family. In Kurzweil's mind, a nursing home was not the right choice. But her mother's poor health made getting her to a doctor very difficult. Kurzweil's solution: Dr. Andrew W. Lyons, a New Age Marcus Welby who makes house calls, little black bag--a padded black computer bag--and all. "It's an amazing lifesaver," says...
...seen plenty of shows with Lost's geek appeal, but their stories usually end with "... and it was soon canceled, to the dismay of its hard-core fans." The Prisoner, the first Star Trek series--even Twin Peaks went from phenom to flame-out faster than you can say, Who killed Laura Palmer? Lost is different. An unapologetically knotty, mass-market commercial hit, it demands commitment--and gets it. How did Lost escape the cult-show graveyard? Partly because it's just TV genius. But also because TV has changed--and because Lost changed TV. Many of the changes that...
...This First Lady has always had a quietly aggressive schedule, spending much of 2004 holding rallies and raising money in Democratic and swing areas where her husband would be less welcome. Often, she was introduced by her twin daughters. Now, she is stepping out on the policy stage, serving as what her chief of staff, Anita B. McBride, calls "the public face of the U.S. government commitment on AIDS, on human rights, on democracy" and "a voice for the commitments that the U.S. government is making on these issues...