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...Keys to Common Wealth In "Common Wealth," Jeffrey Sachs stated that the Millennium Development Goals are to cut extreme poverty, hunger and disease by 2015 [March 24]. Cutting poverty and hunger means more people consuming. Cutting disease means more people. Working toward these goals is meaningless as long as we do not reduce world population. People need to have fewer babies. Anything else produces an endless fight with no chance of winning. Rodger Skidmore, Sarasota, Florida...
...full Israelite identity of Jesus of Nazareth and his family is essential to understanding his historical roots, behavior and teaching. It will go a long way toward demolishing the delusion of Jesus as a blue-eyed Aryan, defanging Christian anti-Semitism and affirming that Judaism and Christianity have a common ancestry. Among his own people, Jesus was known as an Israelite and his followers were known as Galileans or the "party of the Nazarenes." (The Rev.) John H. Elliott, Professor Emeritus, University of San Francisco OAKLAND, CALIF...
Violent teenage gangs are not new to Britain: in 1953 a group of Teddy boys stabbed 17-year-old John Beckley to death near London's Clapham Common, and anyone who has suffered British football hooligans in the last 30 years - and that's a lot of people in a lot of places - know that "violent" and "British" are two words that belong with each other. But the new gangs appear to be uniquely deadly...
...force in the U.S.-led "war on terrorism." And hidden in those rifts are yet other questions: about the capability of some of Europe's armed forces, and even the future of the alliance itself. Australia's Defense Minister Joel Fitzgibbon complained in February of a complete "lack of common objectives" among the NATO allies. "Someone needs to read the riot act to NATO," fumes retired U.S. General Anthony Zinni, the former U.S. central command chief. "They've got to live up to their alliance responsibilities." (Of the 43,250 troops currently in Afghanistan under NATO command...
...told the gathered parliamentarians after the national assembly voted the majority Pakistan People's Party stalwart in as premier. "Our slain leader Benazir Bhutto sacrificed her life for the cause of democracy, and now it is our responsibility to strengthen the democratic institutions in line with the aspirations of common people...