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...same outlook as non-Muslims in Europe. Like their neighbors, they care about everything from education and housing to cleaner air and safer streets. And they want the same rights and opportunities. "Communities, regardless of faith, have largely the same concerns," says report director Nazia Hussein. "Where they differ is how they are treated and viewed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: European Muslims Feel Shut Out | 12/16/2009 | See Source »

Many clamor to differ. Andre DiMino, president of UNICO, the national Italian-American service organization, objects to the term, whether it's self-described or not. He told the New Jersey Star-Ledger: "It's a derogatory comment. It's a pejorative word to depict an uncool Italian who tries to act cool." But is it a generational pejorative? Do younger Americans of Italian descent have a different relationship to the G word? According to Donald Tricarico, a sociology professor at City University of New York/Queensborough, "Guido is a slur, but Italian kids have embraced it just as black kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italian Americans and the G Word: Embrace or Reject? | 12/12/2009 | See Source »

...policy currently stands, those who are neither transgender nor gender questioning can still ask for mixed-gender housing, but their requests are not necessarily accommodated and differ by House...

Author: By Danielle J. Kolin and Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Gender-Neutral Housing On Table? | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...Harvard Crimson: What is the inspiration for this year’s show in particular, and how does it differ from previous years...

Author: By Athena L. Katsanpes, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: SPOTLIGHT: Project East | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...commemoration officially began in Arlington as Armistice Day, with the burial of an anonymous World War I soldier at the Tomb of the Unknowns in 1921, the occasion didn't become a federal holiday in the U.S. until 1938. (In 1954 its name was changed to Veterans Day.) Accounts differ on when the tradition began in Britain and France, but most experts surmise that the first burial of unidentified soldiers at Westminster Abbey in London and at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris took place in 1920, a year before the practice took root in the U.S. (See TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unknown Soldiers | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

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