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...boat is testing two very different waters. He visited China with Hugo Chavez’s private plane, but he sensibly cancelled the visit to Iran and met with the American ambassador in La Paz; he talks of controlling the Santa Cruz “oligarchs” that reign over Bolivia’s wealth, but also about respecting international laws when renewing contracts with foreign investors in La Paz’s gaseous gold: natural...
...Alan Greenspan ended his 18-year reign as Federal Reserve Chairman last week, yque.com was primed to capitalize on the maestro's legacy--and bizarre pop-culture appeal
...parting slap at Marxism in his defense of a Christian vision of good works. But the message is ultimately a clear and simple call for Christian love and charity. Popes typically use their first encyclicals, the most authoritative form of Church writing, to set the tone for their reign rather than to spark debate or overhaul Catholic teachings. With this work, released Wednesday by top Vatican officials, the pontiff may have once and for all moved beyond the caricature painted by his opponents of a cold and rigid doctrinal enforcer from his quarter-century as John Paul II's chief...
...supposedly drawn in the 18th century, argue critics such as Li Xiaocong, a cartography expert at Peking University. "It's simply not logical," says Li, "to use a map drawn in [Emperor] Qianlong's time to prove the existence of a map that might have been drawn during the reign of Yongle"?some three centuries earlier, in the Ming era. Li adds: "We don't even know if that Ming map existed...
Jigme Singye Wangchuck is the man who would rather not be king. When he ascended the throne as Bhutan's absolute monarch in 1974, Wangchuck was the closest thing to God in his tiny, closed Himalayan kingdom of half a million people. His reign has been a benevolent one. Rather than oppose modernization only to be run over by it, the King championed various reforms, such as allowing in foreign tourists, television and the Internet, while limiting their impact in order to preserve the country's values and traditions. Mindful of some pernicious side effects of economic growth, he introduced...