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...North Carolina. The second ad will be paid for by Citizens for a Safe and Prosperous America, the 527 group, which can accept donations of any amount. "This is a long march to November," Brown said. "Right now it's beginning a process that gives us the information to succeed in August and September...
...What kinds of organizations have they worked with? Have they been with organizations over a sustained period of time, so they’ve had the opportunity to struggle and succeed?” she said...
Cardinal William Levada, a high-ranking Vatican official whom Pope Benedict XVI hand-picked to succeed him in his old job as head of the Vatican's doctrinal office, offered early signs on Friday that the Vatican will change its internal, or canon, laws concerning the church's response to sexual abuse allegations - a matter that has become the main topic of the Pope's American visit. The changes would follow adjustments made some time ago involving the church's statute of limitations with regard to some particularly egregious offenses. The Cardinal suggested that laws meriting amendment may involve statutes...
...alone can't succeed in Afghanistan. But Canada's example shows that even our closest allies need to be convinced that the fight is theirs too. Before countries like Macedonia, Albania and Croatia gain admission to NATO, they should be reminded that membership carries responsibilities as well as rewards. NATO rules should be rewritten to ensure that countries that invest disproportionate military and financial resources (as Canada has done) should have some of their costs subsidized by the alliance. If a government does not want to send its troops to fight, it should still be obliged to contribute funding...
...subject.THC: Your characters openly and earnestly engage with both politics and literature, much as you’ve done throughout your career. What sort of role do you see your book—or literature and art more broadly—playing in our contemporary world?KG: Ideally, words succeed, always succeed. I think if anything right now we have a problem with literature being too happy being just literature and too happy playing by the terms that have been set by literature. If you look at it, the category of literary fiction is a recent invention. Before that...