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...protect a person's right to wear a head scarf at school or work, and the hijab and other forms of religious observance are largely viewed as nonthreatening. Greece and Denmark have no problems with the hijab in schools, and head scarves are considered of little concern in Belgium, Spain and the Netherlands. But until Italy, Germany and France find a compromise that believers and secularists alike can embrace, the separation of church and state will continue to cause social division...
...Disney Concert Hall, Frank Gehry's magnificent new building, is located across the street from a big multilevel parking lot. That's a very Los Angeles place to be, of course, but not a great place to be seen from. Gehry's other masterpiece, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, stretches out along the Nervion River, across from any number of cafes, where you can kick back and enjoy how it reclines along the water like Cleopatra on her barge. The Disney Hall, which opens this week in a glittery blast of galas and concerts, deserves nothing less. Its silvery...
...exports American television programs and movies to the rest of the world. A big chunk of the division's $2 billion--plus revenue comes from licensing shows like Dawson's Creek, but the fastest-growing segment of the business is locally produced programming in countries such as Britain, Spain, France, Italy, China and Chile. Sony's first Russian show makes its debut this fall...
...general elections, leading it to ask for a second seat in the seven-member federal cabinet, to be chosen on Dec. 10. The anti-immigration party's gains came in Switzerland's French- and Italian-speaking cantons and at the expense of center-right parties. Coughing Up for Iraq SPAIN Having pledged $20 billion toward reconstruction in Iraq, the U.S. had hoped that other countries at a donors' conference in Madrid would stump up another $36 billion. So far, at least $13 billion in cash grants and loans has been promised. The reconstruction bill has been estimated at nearly...
...When I last saw him the evening before his final return to Spain, he was sitting on the sofa, and he spoke about the idea of shared space. He said, ‘you are the last one left to keep these ideas alive.’ I promised I would do my best, and I hope I have not failed him,” Sekler said...