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...REACTION: Various South American indigenous groups - as well as leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez - demanded a papal apology...
...most recent leftist farce on campus concluded last week—as it was bound to—in ignominious failure...
...look at some of the things Kouchner has said about creating co-development programs that benefit the recipient as well as the donor country's interests, you see he's on the same line as Sarkozy," says a Sarkozy advisor. A former health minister in France's last leftist government, Kouchner has repeatedly angered fellow Socialists since leaving office by criticizing the party's resistance to change and infighting among its leaders. Later, Kouchner did something even more blasphemous: he failed to condemn the U.S.-led war in Iraq. Although the leftist politicians were enraged, Kouchner continued to rival even...
...fact, with communism gone as an historical antagonist to the Church, there may be more room for social activists and the Roman hierarchy to seek solutions together. It seemed only natural this week for the Pope and Brazil's leftist president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a longtime ally of the liberation theology movement, to agree on making a central priority of shrinking of the gap between rich and poor, and challenging the "mercantilization" of human beings in an age of globalization. Benedict, on Friday, led the canonization ceremony in Sao Paulo for the first-ever Brazilian-born saint...
...long march to the French presidency, Nicolas Sarkozy pitted himself against the moldy pieties of an obsolete status quo - much as the leftist revolutionaries of May 1968 had done. Some 19 million voters followed him. In a terse speech on May 6 after his overwhelming victory, Sarkozy said France "has chosen to break with the ideas, habits and behaviors of the past." No more fealty to the notion that France's unique social model can insulate it from the ravages of globalization; no more reflexive opposition to the U.S., which enjoyed a rare expression of Gallic affection when Sarkozy said...