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...Strength Through Suffering David Van Biema's article on Mother Teresa was a spiritual meditation in itself [Sept. 3]. His insights and parallels with other mystics of the church, especially John of the Cross, come through effortlessly. As for Mother Teresa, she took a vow of poverty, in her case manifested as spiritual poverty. She demonstrated that our greatest crosses turn into our greatest strengths. Tom Prendeville, Dublin...
...annual Sexual Health Report Card recorded a 3.55 GPA for Harvard—10th overall of the 139 schools assessed, and up from the 43rd spot last year. Among the 11 criteria in the study were availability of condoms and other contraceptives, STD testing, health center operating hours, and strength of sexual health awareness programs. Harvard was directly tailed in the rankings by Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania. The biggest drop for any Ivy League school came from Princeton, which sank 28 spots to 34th. The nation’s crown prince of coital prudence was the University...
...heels of war games among China, Russia and Central Asian states, the four-nation exercise revealed a side of the region supposedly made extinct by growing economic and diplomatic integration: Asia has embarked upon a new arms race. And with China, Russia, Japan and India all feeling their strength, the region's powers are beginning to divide into two broad alliances...
...Fifteen years ago, this regional arms race might not have seemed surprising. Many countries openly feared China, which advertised its military strength and staked claims to islands in the South China Sea. When China lobbed missiles near Taiwan in 1995 and '96, the White House sent aircraft carriers to the Taiwan Strait. But Beijing apparently recognized its mistakes and shifted course. Over the past decade, it has signed ASEAN's Treaty of Amity and Cooperation and pushed a collective free-trade deal with Southeast Asia. Focused together on terrorism, Washington and Beijing have built closer military links. Just as important...
...much of this year it was tempting to see this disconnect as a good thing: strength elsewhere was compensating for the slowdown in housing. But when the Labor Department reported in September that job creation had lurched into reverse after four years of gains, the tune on Wall Street and elsewhere shifted abruptly. Economists began fretting that, for the first time, a real estate bust would throw the country into recession--a sustained period when the economy shrinks instead of grows and lots of people lose their jobs...