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...Whatever the reason, Mo Yan makes it clear that his fiction will stay rooted in Gaomi - or rather his historical version of it. The novel he is contemplating next, for example, will be centered around a siege of the town during the 1930s, when China was riven with warlord rivalry...
...Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, felt an unalloyed loathing for the abusers, his view on how they should be treated was more complicated. Some years before, as head of the Vatican body investigating abuse by priests, he argued that accused clergymen should not be handed over to secular authorities. Rather, he wrote confidentially to bishops around the world in 2001, they should first be investigated under utmost secrecy within the church - thereby avoiding public hysteria and second-guessing by the media. (See pictures of President Obama meeting Pope Benedict...
...with an essential partner and friend on the global scene? Just like many Asians, Europeans dislike the idea of an all-powerful G-2. We seek intensified cooperation with America but also with Asia, the Middle East, Russia and the Mediterranean region precisely because we believe in a multipolar rather than a bipolar "G-2 world." (Read: "The Lessons of Dubai...
...Europe is hardly shrinking. The European project is far from perfect and the E.U. currently faces many challenges, from bolstering the euro, to creating a stronger presence in the international political arena. But I take issue with the article's premise that Europe is absent from the world stage - rather alarmingly illustrated by your cover page illustration...
...attacks on Holder are coming so fast, it's hard to keep track of the complaints. Republicans criticize him on the one hand for Mirandizing the Christmas Day bomber and on the other for asserting, as he did on March 16, that the U.S. would kill Osama bin Laden rather than capture and interrogate him. But Holder says he's adhering to principles he adopted over the years as an unforgiving criminal prosecutor. And it's Holder's experience in the law-enforcement system that makes him such a strong believer in its ability to put terrorists like KSM away...