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...family was poor, but understood this blistering walk was the ticket to a better life - one that would lead him from an obscure village in Kerala to success in India's cities. A landmark bill put into effect this month aims to open his path to all, making free education a fundamental right for children between 6 and 14. The law is sorely needed in a country with the world's largest population of young people. At least 8 million children remain out of school in India, many kept to work at home or in the fields. India's shocking...
Abuse in the Church "Sins of the Fathers" implies that if Catholic priests were free to marry, it would solve the problem of pedophilia - which the medical community has determined is an incurable illness [March 29]. Pedophiles exist in all walks of life, yet Catholic priests get the headlines, even though just a tiny percentage have committed this shameful offense. Choosing to live the vow of chastity is a gift of one's total self to God and has no relevance whatsoever to pedophilia. Mary Anne Kevil, La Grange...
...become closer than ever. Japan backed America's antiterror campaign, for example, by marshaling refueling missions in the Indian Ocean to support U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Japan was looking more American at home as well. Under Junichiro Koizumi, Prime Minister from 2001 to 2006, the government adopted several free-market reforms to try to restore growth to the perpetually sluggish economy...
...provide a clear direction on policy or control a three-party ruling coalition that is a grab bag of politicians with contradictory ideologies, from relative conservatives to outright socialists. Open disagreements have broken out between Cabinet members, especially over the controversial privatization of Japan's postal system - a free-market initiative begun, not incidentally, during Koizumi's term as Prime Minister. "Whenever you try to get down to reforms you're bound to face difficulties," Hatoyama says, but he insists he has the support of the DPJ and is working cooperatively with his coalition partners. (See the new activism...
...uneducated and poor, western, eastern and southern Sudanese alike. The CPA's authors understood that the way to a united, peaceful Sudan was to remake it as a place where all Sudanese had a say. They planned to achieve this through a national election on April 11, which, if free and fair and inclusive, would weaken Khartoum's grip. The south, which suffered most from Khartoum's discrimination, would also be granted a referendum on secession...