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...will continue the fight from London? My brother has asked me to hold the fort here. I was to accompany him to Islamabad, but at the 11th hour he asked me to cancel my trip. I was about to board his plane to go with him, and though I was very insistent to join him, he was also insistent that I should not come. Now I will lead the fight for his release from here...
...York's Times Square showing a series of bare bums emblazoned with happy faces - until a local church complained that the advertisement was inappropriate, and the offending bottoms were covered. Washlets have spread across the rest of Asia, too. A TIME editor reported that on a recent trip to Tibet he happened on a wonderfully toasty Japanese toilet in what he called a "truly medieval fortress town...
...Despite the proliferation of sophisticated washlets, there are still plenty of old-fashioned squat toilets in Japan. This makes any trip to a Tokyo bathroom an exercise in extremes, either a thigh-challenging balancing act or a luxurious pampering. Back at Tokyo Midtown, as I watched the dogs cruise by in their custom strollers, I wondered if Japan's vaunted toilet-makers have considered creating a pet-friendly washlet. After all, at least one firm is busy trying to develop commodes that can do everything from test for pregnancy to check the glucose levels of diabetics. A high-tech...
...contemporary society's leading intellectuals - an unquestionably big thinker with the world's biggest platform for espousing his ideas. Speaking in his native German, and amongst believers much like those from the neighboring region of Bavaria where he was born, the Pope seemed especially comfortable on this latest trip. In a steady rain, Benedict pulled out the latest nuggets from his seemingly inexhaustible mine of deep thoughts on a now familiar theme: why his black-and-white brand of faith is the right response in a contemporary world given to compromises and what he disparagingly and repeatedly calls relativism...
...strengths. And he may still be trying to regain his footing after his most ambitious attempt at jumping into the global debate ? his speech in Regensberg, Germany, last year about faith, reason and violence in contemporary Islam - largely backfired. Indeed, many in the Vatican were pleased that this trip to Austria came off with little controversy...