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...Since 2003 Iran has signed $20 billion worth of energy deals with foreign companies. And sanctions apparently aren't convincing Iran to come clean on its nuclear program either. Iranian President Ahmadinejad scoffed at this week's threat of new U.N. sanctions. "The Iranian nation has chosen its path and will continue with...
...wasn't particularly happy or sad about being chosen," says Fan, who was 19 at the time. "My mind was just blank. I had no idea who this person was, what my future would be." They had dinner, a silent date for lack of a common language, and then she married the foreigner so her parents could earn $1,000. Her three sisters later made the same choice...
...Nicolas' biography shares a striking parallel with another of his more recent predecessors. Pedro Arrupe, the charismatic and controversial Superior General from 1965 until 1983, was another Spaniard who rose up through the ranks in Japan before being chosen to lead the Jesuits. Arrupe's reign was marked by progressive challenges to the Church establishment, including clashes with both Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II. Arrupe's reign, consistent with order's history of experiments with theology and philosophy, saw the rise of radical Jesuit participation in politics, from the anti-war movement...
...Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit...
Second, displaying commitment to racial loyalty would, for Obama, unjustifiably jeopardize key white support. Astonishing numbers of whites have been drawn to Obama's effort to forge a new alliance of voters that transcends race. When Senator Hillary Clinton accused Obama of deliberately racializing her ill-chosen remarks on Martin Luther King Jr., L.B.J. and civil rights legislation, she implicitly suggested that the Obama camp had indulged in racial opportunism--victim-mongering of the Jackson-Sharpton variety. An important slice of the white vote that Obama attracts is made up of people who are keenly attentive to such charges. They...