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...Jesuit magazine America, whose departure was apparently sealed with Benedict's election? When would the new Pope tear into the ecclesiastic "filth" inside his church and the "dictatorship of relativism" outside it that he had diagnosed preconclave? Benedict's first 100 days have offered no definitive answers, but occasional modest indicators--plus a frank give-and-take with some of his alpine hosts on Day 98--showed a progress of the man into the office and suggested that those who predicted a "caretaker" papacy may have spoken too soon. An inside look at seven telling days of the new Pope...
...weapons, it was heartening that negotiations were taking place at all. Three previous rounds of talks?which began in 2003 and include the participation of China, South Korea, Japan and Russia?ended without a positive result; diplomats feared the process might break down completely. But there was evidence of modest progress last week. For one thing, there was a series of private discussions between the two main players, the U.S. and North Korea, that seemed to indicate a softening of the Bush Administration's stance that it would not deal directly with Pyongyang. Previous talks were marked by bellicose rhetoric...
...ruling ?lite and the wealthy. They made fortunes in a very short span. But most middle-class Pakistanis are left with only ruined hopes. In the wake of rising inflation, a lackluster job market and stagnant salaries, a salaried worker can never think of buying an apartment or a modest house in his lifetime. Millions will have to forgo that dream. The gap between rich and poor is reaching dangerous proportions. It is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. The government has simply not awakened to the plight of its people. Mehmood Aziz Karachi...
...average age at which people have kids, the parents of today's 13-year-olds were typically 13 around 1978, their grandparents that age around 1953. That year the median household income was $3,733 (about $27,000 in today's dollars), the average family home was a modest 1,100 sq. ft., and just 22% of married women worked outside the home. The new toys of choice were Slinkys and Silly Putty. By 1978, average income was $15,064 (about $45,000 today), the average family home was 1,755 sq. ft., and 62% of mothers with children ages...
...first round of private interviews with Senators, Roberts described himself again and again as "modest"--a deliberate word choice that liberals would read as suggesting he wouldn't overturn previous court decisions on issues like abortion and that conservatives would read as reassurance that he wouldn't be setting social policies from the bench. He also followed the advice of his designated handler, former Senator Fred Thompson, who plays a legal sage on Law & Order but is turning out to be a political one in real life. "They like to talk," Thompson told Roberts as they met with Senators...