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Iran and Obama’s 'new' America

Iran and Obama’s 'new' America

PRESIDENT-elect Barack Obama has already achieved a rhetorical break with the arrogant, pompous and rather totalitarian language of the outgoing Bush administration.

Thus, a new grammar is being presented in which the United States is re-invented as a particularly inclusive and exceptional place where "everything is possible".


 

Islam in German schools

SAPHIR, a textbook for Islamic religion classes, presents the fundamental issues of Islam in 15 chapters for fifth and sixth grade pupils.

When did I become the 'other'?

BEING the "other" is a fairly new concept for me. While I’ve never liked being referred to as "the other daughter", I’m accustomed to the label of "the other Fed Fund trader", "the other parent volunteer" or "the other Sunday School teacher".


 

Female sportscaster in Gaza

She is a writer, an anchor, a producer, and arguably the most informed sports researcher in the Palestinian Territories. And she is the first of a kind.

Records of 18 million immigrants to UK since 1878 goes online

Ancestry.co.uk has launched online the most comprehensive UK immigration collection in existence.


 

 

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