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...main concern was that a reunified Germany be firmly anchored in a unified Europe. "One can discuss Mitterrand's ethics or morals, but no one can discount his absolute belief in European unity," says Schabert, author of Mitterrand et la Réunification Allemande. University of Nantes historian Frédéric Bozo, whose broader work on Mitterrand's foreign policy at the end of the cold war will be released in May, also comes to a positive judgment. "As a politician he could be sneaky, but as a diplomat he was straightforward, coherent and underestimated," he says...
...Chaffin is a visiting scholar at Emory University and the author of Pathfinder: John Charles Fr??mont and the Course of American Empire
...Jewish "chief priests and scribes" conspired to kill the Christ Child. The Gospel has the Magi briefly co-opted into his scheme as advance scouts. But on finally locating Jesus, Matthew says, they "fell down and worshipped him." "They responded well, and the insiders didn't," says Fr. Donald Senior, president of Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. Indeed, the Magi are sometimes used simply as a way of expressing Christianity's openness to the far-flung and the unlikely...
Want to know where global commercial culture is going? Go to the movie and visit the websites (and don’t forget the .fr, .jp, or .za versions) and play the video game and shop at a Toys R Us. Want to know how China is dealing with its international image? Look at how the government treats Zhang Yimou. Want proof that film has to be fought for? Look at how Harvey Weinstein treats Zhang Yimou...
...good, inexpensive gear, and people can take classes from certified pros." Next stop on the tour is the Freestyle and Wave Event at Matosinhos, Portugal, this week. "It's a growing sport, combining wind and sea, that is dramatically developing as the number of kiteboarders is increasing everywhere," says Frédéric Gravoille, the organizer of the tour, who is based in Paris. "It can be as extreme or relaxing as you want, in dream destinations all around the world...