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...first inspection, the election of a pope from a country and a continent where the churches are empty and vocations nearly non-existent seems illogicalprecisely the reaction of a society that has become untethered and has started the descent into nothingness. I must admit that the selection of Ratzinger came as a surprise to me, where it is clear that Europeans are not, in my mothers words, clamoring for the truth of the Church as are Africans, Asians, and Latin Americans. Yet it would be unwise to give into the easy reactions of despair and despondency. Benedict was right...
...their worlds forever. Xuong and his wife Nu lived in Saigon, and he worked as a skilled technician in a profitable machine shop. Like millions of other Vietnamese, the Lus are ethnic Chinese, and were residents of a part of Saigon known as Cholon, where many Vietnamese of Chinese descent had settled. Like Chinese diaspora the world over, the one in Saigon was tight knit, industrious and relatively prosperous. Even as the war in Vietnam intensified in the late '60s, Lu says, he was able to make a decent living. "We just tried to live, make the best...
...those of us who have been covering this story every waking moment for the past 10 days, Saturday is a moment to reflect and recharge. On a professional level, we have just taken part in an unprecedented media event: the final descent of John Paul?s health, the ?death watch?, the celebration of his life, the descending crowds of pilgrims and world leaders, a breathtaking funeral, the first murmurings of the race for succession. Most of the top anchors from the TV networks have packed up and gone home. Some will come back for the conclave in eight days...
...black townships of white-ruled South Africa. By this curious bit of legerdemain, the Afrikaners hoped to keep in check the potential political power of blacks, who now number 23.9 million, compared with the whites' 4.9 million, the 2.9 million coloreds, and the nearly 1 million people of Indian descent...
...Crash begins, people of Hispanic, Korean, African, Caucasian, and Middle-Eastern descent verbally tear holes in each other—a Martian could pick up on the racial tension...