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Were Genghis Khan to arrive in Inner Mongolia today and hail one of the many buses that take tourists to the province's famed grasslands, he would probably ask for his bus fare back. And maybe not nicely. It turns out, Mongolia's favorite son was a rather militant environmentalist, whose code of law called for the death of anyone who messed with the verdant grasslands stretching across the steppes of inner Asia - the vast ecosystem that sustained his Mongol tribes and served as natural superhighways for his horseback armies...
...venues likes shopping malls. Church watchers like Martin applaud all this as a sign that "the church, like Jesus, is capable of being creative about getting these things across to people." Others, like Gregory Baum, emeritus professor of theology at McGill University in Montreal, call it a belated Hail Mary pass. "Traditional confession," he says, "just isn't part of Catholic spirituality anymore." Maybe, but for now the church is keeping the light on, just in case...
...leaders like Chàvez, Lula and Morales are products of genuine democracy; unlike the dictators and élitists of Latin America's past, they come from the same ethnic, social and economic backgrounds as the majority of their countrymen. Morales, for example, is Bolivia's first President to hail from its indigenous people. "Perhaps for the first time in the region's history, those who govern actually look like those being governed," Fernàndez says...
...included in the movie seem as if he was giving a new speech every night. His jolly, intimate style sells every zinger to audiences who would have bought his line anyway. He's also an ad-lib adept. When one clutch of Catholic protesters recites the Our Father and Hail, Mary aloud during a rally, Moore asks them, "You're not gonna do the whole rosary, are ya?" and then the more pertinent, "What did Jesus bomb?" The movie leaves little doubt that if Kerry had been half the campaigner Moore is, he'd be in the White House...
...hail literally from all corners of the globe, and we are stronger as an institution because of that fact,†Dingman said...