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...wanted to wear it since she was 15, but knew that French law meant she had to choose between covering her head and getting an education. "It wasn't just ambition that made me feel education was more important than wearing it, but my religion," she says. "The first word that God said to our Prophet was 'Read.' God gave me intelligence, and I didn't want to waste...
...once self-absorbed banks and conglomerates have unlocked new value through aggressive corporate restructuring. Its surging economic recovery has pushed the nation's unemployment below 10% for the first time in four years. But that's not the reckoning of most ordinary Germans; for them, globalization is a dirty word. Ten years ago, Germans were evenly divided on whether globalization presented more opportunities or risks, according to the Allensbach Institute, a polling agency; by 2006, twice as many saw more risks...
Starting January 31, you will no longer be able to cross into the United States without any documentation at all. Yes, that's right. Until now, believe it or not, you could come into the country from Canada with no papers - just your word that you were an American or a Canadian citizen...
...pick up on the subtle missteps that only a native speaking audience - and the candidates' embarrassed speechwriters - remember. In 1999, one of us watched Vice President Al Gore trip up on the last sentence of a speech to the United Jewish Communities conference because of a mispronounced word of Hebrew, rendering it unintelligible to the audience (Gore recovered admirably, and no speechwriter was fired...
...chuckles rippled through the audience. A better salesman? On what planet? This was classic, postpresidential Clinton, able to riff on his well-earned reputation as a mythic slinger of bullpucky. I should add that the topic in question was nuclear nonproliferation. He had the audience hanging on his every word about ... nuclear nonproliferation. The Bush Administration wanted to develop two new nuclear weapons, he said, while it was trying to persuade the Iranians to stop enriching uranium. "There may be a better salesman than I am," he said, "but that's a tough sale. We're telling the Iranians...