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...author's attempt at explaining her vision of a character and how she imagined a broader fictional life to skillfully shape a written character? I am as bothered by this article as I would be by conservatives complaining that Rowling's statement was part of some gay agenda. Timothy Koirtyohann, Fort Worth, Texas...
...backing of a political leader with national, grass-roots support. "Bhutto has finally come to our side," says Ahsan Iqbal, spokesman for the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz party, which is led from exile by Bhutto's longtime foe, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. "There can now be a common agenda. With complete unanimity of goals, there is no reason why we can't all come together to get rid of Musharraf...
...something more profound here than unhappiness with the president and the war in Iraq,” said Gergen, a former advisor to the Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton administrations. “It speaks to a generalized anxiety among Americans as they face a growing agenda of problems and very little progress in overcoming them.” The public disillusionment is part of a historic trajectory that began in the 1970s, with high-profile political assassinations and the Vietnam War, Kennedy School professors said. Barbara Kellerman, a former director at the Center, said leaders face a difficult audience...
...want an invincible Germany!" intoned Schiffgens, the self-styled Raja of Germany. The flap those words created, with their echoes of the Third Reich, reveals both the deadly seriousness with which Germans view their wartime past and the gulf separating Lynch's new-age agenda from that of some hard-bitten Berliners with a more historical mind...
When German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Nicolas Sarkozy met in Berlin on Monday, a major issue on their agenda was European immigration. While Sarkozy and Merkel were facing some critical questions from students of a local high school - one 18-year old girl, for instance, questioned the German Chancellor about the absence of immigrants in her cabinet - German foreign minister Frank Walter Steinmeier and his French counterpart Bernhard Kouchner turned the official occasion into a multicultural house party...