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...that only toys small enough to fit inside an old-fashioned matchbox would be allowed. In addition to cars, buses, dump trucks, bulldozers and cement mixers, the Matchbox Toy empire came to embrace a few delicate designs as well, such as a miniature coronation coach made to commemorate Elizabeth II taking the throne in 1952. Odell...
...Moines last week, Hillary Clinton ended her remarks with a poignant story, first told to her by then United Nations Ambassador Madeleine Albright. As Clinton recounted it, Albright, who was born in Czechoslovakia, was traveling in Europe for the 50th anniversary celebration marking the end of World War II...
...decades after World War II and the division of the Korean peninsula, Pyongyang commanded the affection of a large proportion of the Koreans living in Japan, with an obedient and well-funded Chongyron as its organizer. That meant vital cash for the regime's leaders - some Japanese experts believe that Chongyron has channeled hundreds of millions of dollars to Pyongyang from semi-mandatory contributions by the zainichi community. But in recent years, the "Dear Leader" has lost the love of Koreans in Japan, thanks to a stream of ugly revelations about the Pyongyang regime, plus the inevitable influence of assimilation...
...Benedict was keen to ease restrictions on the Tridentine mass. Indeed, in the first months of his papacy, he'd met with leaders of the "schismatic" followers of the late ultratraditionalist Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who'd split with the Vatican over the introduction of the vernacular and other Vatican II reforms. In his explanatory letter, Benedict says this decree alone will not heal the rift, which is on "a deeper level." So the Pope seems to be showing the ultratraditionalists - who want to undo all the Vatican II reforms - that he will move, but only so far, to accommodate their...
...local bishops may wind up caught in the crossfire. Still, on a more substantive level, Benedict's real long-term objective may be a sort of "counter-reform" of the alternative practices of the new Mass rather than a widespread return to the old one. He says the Vatican II reform "was understood as authorizing or even requiring creativity, which frequently led to deformations of the liturgy which were hard to bear." This document is certainly a clear warning to those progressives who have their own ideas about reforming the Mass...