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Believers lived the final chapter of John Paul II's papacy in simultaneous frustration at his decreasing ability to exert church leadership and admiration for his courage in the face of age, medical setbacks and Parkinson's syndrome. U.S. Catholics were confused and perturbed after priestly sexual abuse--and its enabling by at least some bishops--became a searing national issue in 2002. At the Pope's directives, the U.S. bishops' conference proposed a variety of get-tough measures, which were subsequently watered down in Rome. Observers wondered whether that was the most egregious example of papal preference for church...
...administration focused on its war in Iraq and related matters. For China, the period represented an opportunity to consolidate its astonishing strategic gains assembled in line with what some in its foreign policy establishment call a policy of ?concealing strength and waiting for opportunities.? China has no need to exert itself or take risks on the foreign policy front as its power appears to expand exponentially in proportion to its massive economic growth, which has averaged 9 percent per annum over two decades. China's GDP is slated to equal Britain's this year; Germany's in 2009, Japan...
...WHEN FRANCE TRIED TO EXERT POLITICAL CONTROL OVER THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK IN 2000, A BRITISH POLITICIAN SAID THAT THE E.U. HAS BEEN SHOWN FOR WHAT IT IS: A RUSE BY THE FRENCH, FOR THE FRENCH. DO YOU THINK THERE'S SOMETHING TO THAT? I don't think the main issue is the attempt to control the European Central Bank. The much bigger issue is the French position on all sides of the political spectrum about fiscal policy and taxation. They want to harmonize taxation. They call the different tax rates [in new member states like the Czech Republic...
Upside Workers exert almost total control over their private accounts but still have the protection of the state system and employer pensions, which provide the bulk of retirees' income...
...weren’t able to exert enough ball pressure on them to slow them down,” Sullivan said. “It was hard for us to get them in the halfcourt game...