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...revealed that what she wrote about the darkness in her soul for almost 50 years was the truth. Thank you for showing us the outstanding portrait of that much admired, mysterious nun. It seems as though the sadness of the whole world was mirrored in those eyes. Father Albert Herold, Order of Saint Benedict, Mtunzini, South Africa
...could focus on developing an export-led economy. Fast-forward half a century and Aso, a former Foreign Minister, staunchly supports the U.S.-Japan security alliance, while antagonizing China by defending visits of Japanese statesmen to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, where war criminals are memorialized. Meanwhile, Fukuda's father was an LDP stalwart who while PM promoted diplomatic relations with Asia through "heart-to-heart" dialogue. And guess what? That's what Fukuda, a former Chief Cabinet Secretary, peddles himself as today: a consensus-driven political insider who opposes Yasukuni visits because they alienate Japan's neighbors. The country...
...Protesters have hanged effigies of drug CEOs outside the offices of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America in Washington; no less a figure than Nelson Mandela has condemned Big Pharma for exploiting the dying; and in Kenya in 2004, a Jesuit priest who ran an orphanage in Nairobi, Father Angelo D'Agostino, made headlines when he accused the "drug cartels" of "genocidal action." Today drug companies have lowered the prices of some ARVs. But the controversy threatens to reignite. In July, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned that newer, more effective drugs were once again being...
...moment, I think, but people. If there's a central character in my book, it's my mother. She was determined that there would be no limit on my aspirations. My father made sure that I understood that even if I brought home an A, somehow I was expected to do better next time...
...warning of impending apocalypse, Jeffs closed the school and moved to the twin towns, where he quickly established himself as more strict and inclined to separatism than his father, the Prophet Rulon Jeffs, who died in 2002. Warren Jeffs, who inherited many of his father's estimated 75 wives, inveighed against newspapers, television, the Internet. Beware of too much laughter, he told followers, which causes the spirit of God to leak from your body. He outlawed basketball games and television and holidays, and when a child was mauled by a Rottweiler, he ordered that all the dogs in town...