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...Faithful Young I appreciated your article about the Roman Catholic Church's efforts to connect with young Europeans [Aug. 15]. In referring to Pope John Paul II's popularity with young people, you quoted a German Cardinal: "The girls in St. Peter's Square who cheer the Pope have the Pill in their pockets." I don't think the Cardinal was referring simply to contraceptives. He was making a general statement about many aspects of contemporary sexuality and behavior proscribed by the Catholic Church. Some Cardinals are concerned that we young people are given too much freedom. In fact there...
...SAME PAGE French and German scholars are writing a text for the 2006-07 school year that will present students with even-handed perspectives of their adversarial histories--including the biases each assigned to the translations of treaties...
...solo project," says Parton. "I pulled in all the people I'd spoken to about it vaguely over the years." Guitarist Sam Dook and bassist Jamie Bell both lived nearby in Brighton, Japanese drummer Chi Fukami "was a friend of someone in my work." Then came German drummer Silke Steidinger (since replaced by Kaori from Japan) and Londoner (Ninja) Ka, who sings, raps and leads the cheerleader chants. The members are multi-instrumentalists who seamlessly swap tools throughout the show. The band was tasked with bringing to life an eclectic mix of instruments and samples buried in the album tracks...
...predictable propaganda film. "I did not make what they wanted me to make," he says. Critics are impressed, too. The film, which has been sold in 45 countries, won the Blue Angel award for best European film at the Berlin Film Festival in February - it is a Dutch-German-French production - as well as the festival's Amnesty International film prize and the Berliner Morgenpost readers' prize for best film. It received strong reviews in France, where it opened earlier this month. It opens in Germany in late September and in Britain early next year. Abu-Assad isn't certain...
...Merkel, the resolution of what Germans had come to call "the Chancellor's War" comes as a relief. She had been widely expected to win the election outright until the final days before the vote, and the the final result, which gave her party just a four-seat margin over Schroeder's Social Democrats, came as a severe disappointment. Having to hammer out an agreement with the Social Democrats means that she will have to water down some of her more ambitious free-market-oriented policies. Still, the chancellorship is a major accomplishment for the daughter of a Lutheran pastor...