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...Kundera a Communist Snitch?”), which overshadows the reasonably balanced content of its article. A top Italian newspaper ran a headline that read, “Kundera helped the Czech secret police,” while the German paper Die Welt likened Kundera to Günter Grass, a Nobel Prize-winning author who hid his military service for the Nazis during most of his life. Several Czech journalists and intellectuals stated they are not surprised that Kundera had once been an informant, as if the matter were already settled. All the while, the author?...
...have now for 40 years done things like recycle, make compost from my garden's grass cuttings, house refuse etc. I have replaced all my lightbulbs for energy-saving bulbs. I save water and electricity by only boiling the kettle three times a day, putting the boiled water in a flask for tea and coffee later. I only put the geyser on to have enough hot water for showers and baths. I have planted maybe 300 trees in my lifetime. All this means I am helping to counteract the environmental problem, but it will never be enough because the fundamental...
...Much of the campaign's current effort to get black voters to the polls rests with grass-roots organizers like John Wyche, 50, of Pensacola, Fla. Wyche says he made an innovative suggestion to Obama's Florida campaign staffers that they ask pastors of predominately black congregations in Escambia County - which includes Pensacola and allows early voting on Oct. 26 - to have buses and vans ready after morning services to take congregants to polling stations. But the Obama campaign won't comment on whether it will take Wyche's advice - nor will it comment generally on suggestions that...
...development of communities—was integral to the development of Indian villages. According to Pathak, the problems of development stem from plans that lack great involvement from the people they are designed to help. Pathak said that development should instead flow from the bottom up. This type of grass-roots development can be achieved with integral humanism, she added. To stress the importance of the project to India’s well-being, Pathak quoted Mahatma Ghandi’s phrase, “India is a nation of villages.” By returning to forgotten values, like...
...appointed officials to recruit to its cause. Few Afghans feel that they have an adequate outlet for settling grievances, like land disputes, so they are more likely to turn to Taliban courts that have sprung up in government vacuums. Real reconciliation, says Nathan, should be taking place at the grass roots, with Afghans who have become alienated from the government. If they can be persuaded that the government is looking after their needs, they are less likely to support the Taliban...