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Regardless of whether one agrees with Pope John Paul II, granting Catholic Charities an exemption from this law would directly violate one of the basic principles of a civil society mandating that every citizen is subject...
...State Department previously withheld confirmation of Bakshi’s account because federal law requires that the government possess a waiver from an American citizen before releasing information about that person...
...answer of Berlusconi the businessman is, try to earn more." SILVIO BERLUSCONI, Italy's Prime Minister and richest citizen, after being asked in a TV interview what the government could do to help low-income workers...
...mobile phone camera, shows people escaping from a subway train. In the foreground, a man is holding a cloth over his nose and mouth so he can breathe more easily in the smoky subway.The photograph, one of the best examples to date of a phenomenon many call citizen journalism, reflects the democratization of information. The collision of media and technology has given us powerful, inexpensive tools to create digital content, ranging from blogs to podcasts to videos and more. Distribution, too, has been opened via global communications networks. But as these media floodgates open, the sheer quantity of information available...
...Arias, 64, a Social Democrat who won the Nobel Prize during his first presidency in the 1980s for his work to end Central America?s bloody civil wars, defeated Otton Solis of the Citizen?s Action Party by just 1.1%, one of the closest margins in Costa Rica?s history, and he garnered only 40.9% of the total vote. Solis-who was backed by the radical and increasingly popular left-wing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez-opposes Costa Rica?s entrance into the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) with...