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...want to give Taiwan a place in the world.' FRANK HSIEH, former Premier of Taiwan and an advocate of improving relations with China, after being chosen to run as the ruling Democratic Progressive Party's candidate in the island's March 2008 elections...
...talented French citizens to leave France and seek success abroad. France has the slowest?growing large economy in Europe, the fastest-rising public debt in western Europe over the past ten years, and its 22% youth unemployment rate is one of the highest on the continent. Sarkozy was chosen by an electorate looking to cure the malaise. Assuming he has the courage his predecessors have not had to withstand the inevitable protests and demonstrations, the President-elect will liberalize labor markets, cut taxes, relax the 35-hour-workweek laws and create more flexible contracts...
...much longer, however. On Saturday, Mugabe told the Zimbabwean daily, The Herald: "Once [the bishops] turn political, we regard them as no longer spiritual and our relations with them would be conducted as if we are dealing with political entities and this is quite a dangerous path they have chosen for themselves...
...objectifying women and defining them by their chosen sexual activity, pop culture conflates sexual acts with the entirety of sexuality. But female sexuality is about more than just sex: It includes understanding our anatomy, building confidence in our bodies, deciding to whom we’re attracted, and knowing what we find pleasurable. It’s not just about how many sexual partners we’ve had or how aggressively we seek...
...Still, if the Vatican?s collective nerves are a bit frayed these days, it?s not hard to understand why. The recently chosen President of the Italian Bishops Conference, Angelo Bagnasco, has been repeatedly targeted with graffiti-scrawled threats in his hometown of Genoa and elsewhere. On Saturday, Bagnasco received an envelope containing bullets...