Word: third world
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...Playboy of the Western World.” This production of Julius Caesar was rigorous and keenly focused on mastering the text. So even though the director’s vision for the play was unconventional, he put us through our paces in a conventional way; for the first two weeks, all we did was just read the play at the table and discuss aspects of the play’s textual analysis. We had rehearsal eight hours a day, so by the time we started staging the play (in the third week) we had already almost memorized...
...third time's clearly the charm. In finally selecting the government's third nominee to run the central bank, Japan has acted in the nick of time. Amid a global economic crisis, the sigh of relief is almost audible in Tokyo following the decision of the world's second largest economy not to continue to lose face in the week leading up to Friday's Group of Seven finance ministers' meeting in Washington...
...belief that the Iraq invasion was an inadequate cold war--style response to 21st century problems like poverty, insecure borders and weapons proliferation. To get Obama ready for a presidential run, Lake has assembled a 200-person shadow National Security Council for the candidate, whose childhood in the Third World and paternal ties to Africa have not made up for foreign policy inexperience...
...Sant'Egidio with a circle of high school friends in Rome in 1968, he did not have big plans. The group would pray together and aid the poor and in that way help improve the human condition at least a tiny bit. "The periphery of Rome was like a Third World city," Riccardi recalls...
...that last perception is particularly flawed. A survey of the 80-year-old Pontiff's writings over the decades and testimonies from those who know him suggests that Benedict has a soft spot for Americans and finds considerable value in his U.S. church, the third largest Catholic congregation in the world. Most intriguing, he entertains a recurring vision of an America we sometimes lose sight of: an optimistic and diverse but essentially pious society in which faiths and a faith-based conversation on social issues are kept vital by the Founding Fathers' decision to separate church and state...