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...importance of capturing a resounding majority to assist the popular Sarkozy with what they call long-overdue reforms - changes they accuse the left of being too ideologically deluded to accept. In reply to leftist accusations that rolling back welfare would penalize the less wealthy to the benefit of the rich, Fillon mocked his rivals as "moralizing impostors." He also smeared leftists opposing the right's promises to curb immigration as those who "no longer dare love France." Many UMP candidates in lower-profile positions than Fillon have been using even stronger language to bash leftist contenders as unpatriotic...
...Anglican parties have talked fairly little, thus far, about the collateral damage if the Communion does dissolve - but it would be real. Valuable links between rich and poor nations would be broken, and people would suffer while northern cash is seeking new conduits to southern need. There will be expensive litigation. That is not to say that the principles of gay rights or biblical fidelity may not be worth the possible costs. But Williams cautions: "There are no clean breaks. It's not as if [the Communion would] just snap apart like a dry biscuit...
Scotch exports had a record year in 2006, with almost $5 billion worth shipped--a quarter of all food and drink exports from Britain. Asia's new rich are a big market--Chinese consumers imported $115 million worth of whisky last year, up from $3 million in 2000--but it is India that's driving distillers to stack the barrels high in warehouses from Islay to the Highlands. India is the biggest consumer of whisky in the world, putting away 70 million cases last year. With an 80 million-- strong middle class and an economy growing more than...
...rich Russia (its leaders refer to it as an "energy superstate") in some ways is reminiscent of Nigeria, as corruption and money laundering fritter away a great deal of the country's wealth. To an extent, Russia can use its vast profits to get its way. But buying influence, even in Washington (where money goes a long way), cannot match the clout the Soviet Union once enjoyed as the beacon of an ideology with broad international appeal...
...Catholicism, it is global, uniting varied ethnicities in an overarching understanding of faith. But Anglicans have forgone Catholicism's authoritarianism, staking their unity on a continual conversation and mutual respect. The sharp debate over homosexuality crystallizes a challenge facing everyone in an uneasy, newly wired world: Can the North--rich and imbued with an ethos of individual rights--and the poorer South find a constructive interdependence? Speaking to TIME on a cool May morning, Williams insisted, "I don't think schism is inevitable." But he has his work cut out to stop...