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Swiss move to ban minarets as 'symbols of Islamic power'
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Town becomes focus of right-wing campaign ahead of controversial
referendum
THE NORMALLY sleepy Swiss country town of Langenthal has become
the focus of a virulent right-wing campaign to ban minarets from all
mosques in the Alpine republic on the grounds that they symbolise
ideological opposition to the country's constitution.
Switzerland's "stop minaret" movement is backed by the
influential ultra-conservative Swiss People's Party, (SVP) which was
re-elected in 2007 with its largest ever share of the vote after
mounting an anti-foreigner campaign that was denounced by the United
Nations as ...
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Sony Licenses the Tiresias Screenfont from Bitstream.
Business Wire
; ...Visual Products Europe to integrate the Tiresias Screenfont, the standard font endorsed...entered into an agreement to license the Tiresias Screenfont, the standard font endorsed...Platform). Sony will incorporate the Tiresias Screenfont in its MHP digital platforms...
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Bitstream and RNIB Release New Tiresias Screenfont.
Business Wire
; ...announced today a new release of the Tiresias Screenfont. This new release replaces...previous version. The RNIB developed the Tiresias Screenfont in response to a need for...Video Broadcasting) has adopted the Tiresias Screenfont as the standard font for the...
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"Tiresias".(Reseña de película)
Magazine article from: Proceso
; ...estricto y acadmico de Robert Bresson. Tiresias (Francia, 2003), adaptacin moderna...cuenta. Como todos los mitos, el de Tiresias posee varias versiones; la ms conocida...mito y enfatiza la connotacin edpica (Tiresias aparece en tragedias como la de Edipo...
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TIRESIAS AND THE JUSTICES: USING INFORMATION MARKETS TO PREDICT SUPREME COURT DECISIONS
Magazine article from: Northwestern University Law Review
; ...1185 C. Moving into the Future: Tiresias as a Bridge...of this kind, which we propose naming Tiresias,4 should lead to more accurate forecasts...III analyzes possible design models for Tiresias, including an open market with tradable...
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Tiresias.(Poem)
Magazine article from: Prairie Schooner
; Tiresias If she came with a branch of tamarind...husbands-half-strangers, if your snake, Tiresias, could be one and my sex were unfolding...rice for the new strangers, tell me, Tiresias, if only that my having you could be...
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Fanfare for a Joyful Occasion. Concerto for Flute and Winds.1/Tiresias: Suite/Eine kleine Posauenmusik2
Magazine article from: Fanfare
; ...Concerto for Flute and Winds' LAMBERT Tiresias: Suite. SCHULLER Eine kleine Posauenmusik2...five ballets, the last of which was Tiresias (1950/51). The Suite, using a large...and the entry of the young, virile Tiresias. "The Entry of the Warriors" has strong...
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RNIB and Bitstream Release Three New Tiresias Fonts; New Release Includes a Family of Typefaces Designed for Legibility On Screens, Signs, and Labels.
Business Wire
; ...RNIB) announced today the release of a new family of typefaces for the visually impaired. The Tiresias family now includes Tiresias PCfont, Tiresias Infofont, and Tiresias Signfont, as well as the previously released Tiresias Screenfont. The...
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Tiresias Speaks: Sarah Winnemucca's Hybrid Selves and Genres
Magazine article from: Legacy
; ...and an Indian woman can tell. (2) As a participant in both white and Paiute communities, Winnemucca -- like the mythical Tiresias -- is said to be able to speak the "truth" of each.(1) But for whom is this knowledge spoken? If she is indeed a...
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Tiresias/Teresa: a "man-made-woman" in Ovid's Metamorphoses 3.318-38.
Magazine article from: Helios
; ...The Human-Not-Quite-Human(1) Tiresias is rare among the characters of the Metamorphoses...copulating snakes with his staff--Tiresias is assumed to have direct knowledge of...Jupiter says women do, Juno disagrees--Tiresias is called in as arbiter: forte Iovem...
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Apollinaire et Les Mamelles de Tiresias. La revanche d'Eros.
Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies
; Apollinaire et Les Mamelles de Tiresias. La revanche d'Eros. By Peter Read...Apollinaire in the preface to Les Mamelles de Tiresias, his extraordinary play premiered some...but also the significance of the Tiresias myth as exemplar of a primordial unification...
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