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...will probably remain the same. What he should do is form a grand coalition with the opposition Christian Democrats until the constitutional end of the Social Democrats' term, in 2006. That would help break the gridlock. Alfred Jung Gau-Bischofsheim, Germany After Schröder's party was severely beaten in North Rhine-Westphalia, a Social Democratic stronghold for 39 years, and was suffering its lowest approval ratings since World War II, Schröder should have resigned gracefully. Instead, he decided to call snap elections. Nevertheless, there are two possible outcomes. Either Schröder will be re-elected...
...Zaïre's capital of Kinshasa, 250,000 attended a Mass where the Pope performed the first beatification of a black African woman, Sister Marie-Clementine Anuarite Nengapeta, who was beaten and bayoneted to death in 1964 as she resisted a rape. Before a hushed assembly that included Anuarite's family, John Paul recounted that the martyred nun had, "like Christ," pardoned the soldier who assaulted her. Then he added dramatically, "And I too forgive her killer with all my heart, in the name of the entire church." The man, educated by missionaries, had asked publicly for the Pope...
...Bone has garnered raves from Canadian reviewers. Which seems fitting, since this novel, like most of his other fiction, draws heavily on the author's experiences in his native land. Elements of Francis Cornish's troubled youth come straight from Davies' memories: "As a child, I was beaten up by Catholic kids every day after school. As a newspaperman in that area, I knew families that had idiot children hidden away in attics or barns. It sounds grotesque. But it is the way things were...
...merely a world championship but the superiority of its system over that of the decadent West. Apolitical Rocky does not care. But his friend and sometime opponent Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) does, and in an exhibition match (staged--plug, plug--at MGM's Las Vegas Grand), he is sadistically beaten to death by the Soviet. That, of course, gets the Italian Stallion up on his hind legs, pawing...
...moments of childhood normality?Kang played in the woods, and writes of his astonishment at seeing a bear. But Aquariums is mostly grim. When two prisoners were hanged for trying to escape, guards ordered other inmates to stone the corpses?women who couldn't bear to do so were beaten. When a sister of one of Kang's close friends died of starvation in winter, she couldn't be buried deep because the ground was frozen. When the earth thawed, the decomposed body was revealed...