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...first half seems to require little more than common sense. The second? Slightly more vision, particularly after considering who Donato chose to substitute...
...Schiavo case has provoked a passionate American conversation, which is taking place on a more profound level than the simple yes and no answers of the polls. Yes, the vast majority disdain the politicians who chose to exploit the case. And yes, a solid majority would not want their own lives prolonged in a similar situation. But the questions that cut closest to home are the family issues. What would you do if Terri Schiavo were your daughter? Why couldn't Michael Schiavo just give custody over to the parents? What do we do about custody in a society where...
...papal conclave nonchalantly browsing through a quarterly review of Marxist theory. When the two leading Italian candidates, a Vatican power broker and an ultraconservative, deadlocked, the Cardinals began looking over the Alps for the first time since 1522. Elected on the eighth ballot, Wojtyla modestly chose to be called John Paul...
...December 1998 the U.N. chose the Swiss company Cotecna to monitor imports of humanitarian goods to Iraq under the oil-for-food program. The following month, newspaper reports revealed that the company had employed Kojo Annan, the son of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and raised questions about possible conflicts of interest, which the U.N. denied. The scandal grew when evidence emerged that Saddam Hussein had skimmed some $2 billion from the $65 billion program. Last April Annan asked Paul Volcker, a former chairman of the Federal Reserve, to investigate those issues. In February his panel released its first report...
...Taliban's fall has been a long time coming. After U.S. forces took Afghanistan in December 2001, many Taliban simply melted away into their villages. But plenty chose to fight on. Using Pakistan as a sanctuary, and recruiting fresh volunteers from seminaries around the Pakistani cities of Quetta and Peshawar, die-hard Taliban commanders led by Omar conducted a jihad against American forces. By late 2002, say Afghan officials in Kabul, nearly half the country was out of bounds to foreign relief missions. And without the lifeline of aid, Afghans saw no point in supporting the U.S.-backed government...