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...Prachanda's rise is testament to the striking political transformation gripping this Himalayan nation of 27 million. The election culminated a process begun two years ago, when Maoist-backed mass protests brought down Nepal's 240-year-old monarchy and leveraged the former guerrillas, still on the U.S. State Department's list of terrorist groups, into the country's political mainstream. As the prime movers in Nepal's transition from royal rule, they will preside over the monarchy's formal abolition...
...electric vehicles to the market. Providing enormous subsidies to corn ethanol has little to do with addressing climate change; it is another giveaway to the powerful farm lobby and agribusiness. We need bold and tangible solutions to the interrelated problems of climate change, energy and food. Surabhi Gupta, Natick, Mass...
...imaginations of a generation into sex, love and rock 'n' roll. When one attends to the actual written documents of that Council, what one discovers is the same Catholic teachings as before. The bishops simply put the key focus and dynamics of the church on paper. Sharon Reidy, BEDFORD, MASS...
...devout Catholics crowd the new Washington Nationals Stadium this morning for a Holy Mass led by Pope Benedict XVI, animal protection is not likely to be on their minds. Amid the great questions of war, justice, and life, animals might also appear a humble concern for the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics. But the Pope himself has suggested that the issue of animal protection is far from irrelevant to the Catholic faith...
...print minidress with gold platforms and a gold belt and hair like this,” she says, gesturing expansively. “I mean, I looked like a 45-year-old Russian prostitute!” In the era of chick lit’s ascendancy in the mass market publishing industry, Dovey sees the cards as stacked against female novelists of a more literary inclination. “I suppose there are young female authors who are taken as seriously as, say, the Jonathans—you know, Jonathan Safran [Foer], Jonathan Lethem, or Jonathan Franzen?...