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...yearning for our past, real or imagined, will not bring it back. And I fear that after the tribulations of the past eight years, we may not survive waking up on the wrong side of the bed for four more. I can only pray that by November we will stir from our sentimental slumber long enough to elect a President who has the vision and intelligence to lead us in the world in which we actually live. Kevin Thompson, Maplewood, New Jersey...
...purpose of this report is to try to stimulate discussion and to try to reach consensus,” he said. “And any time you try to reach consensus, you’re not going to really stir things up, you’re not going to make waves, you’re not going to do something really bold...
...While Benedict continues his efforts to stir Europeans with his ideas, there is also the work to be done on the ground. Georges Kouakou, 50, remembers the Western missionaries when he was growing up poor in his native Ivory Coast. Having emigrated to France, Kouakou, a computer engineer and father of three, regularly attends mass at Notre Dame des Victoires church in central Paris. The pastor to the mostly native French parishioners there happens to be from the Congo. "There's been an evolution," Kouakou says. "Europeans went to evangelize Africans; today it's the reverse, and Africans...
...What people remember is not the real GDR, but a fictitious country that never existed," says Schroeder, whose study caused a stir when it was published last month. "We have published many studies in the past, but we never had such a strong resonance," he says. "This issue is really stirring people up. Germany still seems to be more divided than people think. It's like an open wound and when you touch on it, it hurts...
...They saw that we are prospering here and they wanted to put an end to that." And, of course, there was the international dimension. The Russians, he says, "think they are liberating Georgia from our horrible, pro-Western political class." Indeed, their hope was that the Russian invasion would stir Georgians to rise up and depose him, says Saakashvili. "That was their strategic mistake. That's not how you destroy politicians. That'S how you strengthen them...