Mr. ISIKOFF: Muslim Brotherhood was founded in Egypt in 1928 by fundamentalists who were really opposing both the way Mid-East governments were ruling at that time - in that case it was mostly colonial powers - and also the whole trend towards modernity, which Muslim fundamentalists saw as a deviation from the Koran, from a strict adherence to the words of Allah.

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Positioned at Pudong's tip, the Oriental Pearl Tower was a cartoonish totem for China's race into modernity and an emphatic counterpoint to the Bund, a strip of colonial-era buildings on the opposite Puxi bank of the Huangpu River.

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