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...Foreign Minister, Plassnik addressed the expansion of the European Union and the growing significance of Islam in European affairs. Her name is now among those mentioned for Foreign Minister to the EU, a post that would be created under the Lisbon Treaty, which aims to reform the workings...
...there are 20 to 30 million Muslims in the European Union. This means that we already have to manage religious pluralism. My hope is that Islam in Europe will be a combination of European citizenship and attachment to the fundamental values of European societies and a religious identity as a Muslim...
...response to backlash over their controversial new platform, TLR co-president Rachel L. Wagley ’11 e-mailed the Radcliffe Union of Students e-mail list and attended a club meeting to address what she considered to be misconceptions about the club. Misinterpreting the book by Ariel Levy, “Female Chauvinist Pigs,” as a work that argues against “societal dangers of second-wave feminism and sexual mania,” Wagley claims that feminism has gone too far and that women today have lost dignity as a consequence. Wagley should...
...rebellion against a federal whiskey tax. Although he did not use the term national emergency, the Whiskey Rebellion was the first instance in which a President gave himself a one-time use of additional power. Abraham Lincoln took emergency action against the Southern states that seceded from the Union. Congress was not in session when he took office, so Lincoln enlarged the military and blocked the secessionist states' access to seaports on his own, calling his actions a "public necessity...
...lightbulbs, automobiles and firearms. Though Osama would punish his boys for laughing or smiling and send them on forced marches in the desert without water, Omar and his brothers could at least console themselves with the honor of being sons of the man who helped defeat the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, a hero in both the Muslim world and the West. "When I was a young boy, I worshipped my father, whom I believed to be not only the most brilliant, but also the tallest man in the world," Omar writes. "I would have to go to Afghanistan to meet...