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...that foreign powers have played in tampering with the development of the young and promising country, and you didn't emphasize enough Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah's vibrant efforts to raise Ghana and all of sub-Saharan Africa to the same level as the so-called developed countries. Kwesi Dei-Anang, MAINZ, GERMANY...
...self-respecting Japanese woman what she has planned for Valentine's, and she'll tell you that it's all been set - the chocolates, gifts, and dinner, all prepared and paid for, by her. On Barentain Dei, women take the initiative to shower their honmei or sweethearts with gifts, profess their love, and humor their male classmates and colleagues with giri-choco or obligation chocolates. For teenagers it's a bittersweet initiation into romance and courtship, where girls brave a few burns to learn the art of tempering molten chocolate to create one-of-a-kind treats for the captain...
...getting out the right message. The Germany trip was the first for the new head of the Vatican press office, Father Federico Lombardi, already the director general of Vatican radio and television, who takes over for longtime papal spokesman Joaqu?n Navarro-Valls. Though Navarro-Valls, a suave Opus Dei layman, was prized for his ability to shape John Paul's message for the modern media, he too had appeared to be biding his time since the start of this pontificate. The Jesuit scholar Lombardi, a much more low-key figure, must begin to help translate Benedict's lofty prose into...
...what was more a shift in style than structure, the Vatican press office was passed in July from longtime papal spokesman Joaqu?n Navarro-Valls, a debonair lay member of Opus Dei, who often was a newsmaker himself, to the more low-key Jesuit priest Father Federico Lombardi, already the director general of Vatican radio and television. The choice shows the desire to better coordinate the Holy See's communication agencies, long seen as too disjointed...
...Figura he calls "the curious glue that, despite everything, binds the nation." This persistent, if modest, voice may be what bridges the gap between Italy's national languor and a future embrace of the rest of the world. Severgnini has a very specific bridge in mind. "Not the Ponte dei Sospiri [Bridge of Sighs] - it's too expensive. And I'm not talking Golden Gate or Brooklyn, I'm talking one of the little bridges in Venice that goes across a calle. You need that little bridge." It might be strange to label a bridge to the wider world...