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...every nation's characteristics every day," says Frédéric Lefebvre, spokesman for Sarkozy's ruling Union for a Popular Majority Party. Given such cultural erosion, Lefebvre called for a defense of our "cultural model and la Douce France" - an allusion to crooner Charles Trenet's famous 1943 song rhapsodizing about the villages, people and traditions of pastoral France. (See pictures of the Nazis in Paris during World...
Among the documentary's highlights are emotional meetings between Marroquín and the son of one of his father's most famous victims: Colombian Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara, who was killed in 1984. Lara's son, also named Rodrigo Lara, is a Colombian senator. He was just 8 years old when he helped bodyguards bring his bullet-riddled father to the hospital. Still bitter about the assassination, he was skeptical about Marroquín. But after receiving a gracious letter from drug lord's son, he met Marroquín in a Buenos Aires suburb and the two ended...
...Most of the focus will be on the E.U. president - a job that could provide an answer to Henry Kissinger's famous question about who he would call if he wanted to speak to Europe. What exactly the president will do - besides answering that 3 a.m. phone call from the White House - has yet to be firmed up. The Lisbon Treaty is vague about the job description beyond the official role of organizing E.U. summits and meeting with foreign leaders. The president could become a powerful, high profile and recognizable face for all of Europe. But momentum...
Gutmann’s words recall the more famous speech by President John F. Kennedy ’40, who argued before Congress at the start of his own moon program that “This gives promise of some day providing a means for even more exciting and ambitious exploration of space, perhaps beyond the moon, perhaps to the very end of the solar system itself.” As we are currently slated to begin a moon colony in 2020, NASA is making laudable progress in creating the infrastructure needed for it. After the moon colony is established...
...Jesus Christ is probably the most famous martyr in history. Why has this trend not resonated as strongly among Christians as it has among Muslims? Early Christian communities were very happy to self-destruct but after the Enlightenment there was an increasing separation between religious spheres of action and political spheres of action, whereas in Islam, religious dynamics are still very much intertwined with political agendas. In Christianity, you don't really see what you see in Islam where the [political] martyr is a Christ-like figure. In Christian communities, if you act like a Christ-like figure to solve...