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...Pope John Paul helped establish the synod's forthright mood with an opening homily that avoided touching on specific issues; it seemed clear to Vatican observers that the Pope was presenting the synod participants with a blank page on which to express their thoughts freely. Godfried Cardinal Danneels of Belgium, who was assigned to summarize official reports for the meeting, told journalists that the Pope "said nothing about the work of the coming synod, gave no guidelines for what we were...
...Commission and a key player in preparations for the 2008 Olympics, Huang is taking on the country's stickiest development problems-migration, pollution, corruption-and its deepest ambitions: to be modern, prosperous and globally respected. Huang, 40, is a new kind of bureaucrat. The English-speaking architect, trained in Belgium, Germany and China, is not a Communist Party member. She is striving "to bring fresh air" to China's musty, Soviet-style planning dogmas, which have left much of the capital grim, dusty and clogged with traffic. Huang argues for more attention to how humans actually live, what makes sense...
...single currency argued that it would give a boost to Europe's economy and help make it more competitive. Now Europe has entered a period of "deconvergence," in the jargon of some economists, as spendthrift habits creep back in. A recent European Commission report notes that while Belgium, Finland and Ireland have balanced their budgets, four members--Germany, Greece, France and Italy--have allowed their budget deficits to grow beyond the 3% limit laid down in the rules of the single currency. The overall debt level of the euro countries, which is not supposed to exceed 60% of gross domestic...
...wouldn't survive," says Hall. "'After all, she's 90,' they told my family." To which her son replied, "Well, not many 90-year-olds just came back from performing in Europe." Less than a year later, Hall was back on the road appearing in the concert halls of Belgium and the Netherlands with the Young@Heart Chorus, a 21-member Northampton, Mass., group in their 70s, 80s and 90s that performs rock-'n'-roll classics by such masters as the Clash, the Rolling Stones, Hendrix and Springsteen on a grueling touring schedule around the globe...
Jean-Noël Jeanneney, president of the French national library, has since inspired 19 libraries to join the cause. The national libraries in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, and Sweden all signed and released an official oppositional statement soon after Google unveiled the project in December...