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...force. "Domestic politics has enslaved foreign policy to the point where it is endangering Germany's alliances," says Jan Techau, of the German Council on Foreign Relations. "German political élites need to speak about repositioning foreign policy. Germans will understand. They are not stupid." In such getting of wisdom lies the reinvigoration of the Atlantic alliance...
...thought of that family frequently. People outside China always want to know what will spur political change, what will turn an authoritarian dictatorship to democracy. Conventional wisdom says it happens when a society develops a solid middle class with rising expectations. That, anyway, is the story of Taiwan and South Korea. But in China, my neighbors, even though they are often, in private, bitterly critical of the government, seem content to leave it well enough alone. Having made the Short March, they have a vested interest in stability...
Wright: We know that we will be with God and with Christ, resting and being refreshed. Paul writes that it will be conscious, but compared with being bodily alive, it will be like being asleep. The Wisdom of Solomon, a Jewish text from about the same time as Jesus, says "the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God," and that seems like a poetic way to put the Christian understanding, as well...
...What was conventional wisdom two months ago" - namely, an easy win by Hillary Clinton - "has been thrown out the window," said Cardetti of the Missouri Democrats. What's left is mystery, until the Show-Me state shows...
...Opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi refused to budge from his call for immediate elections, convinced that a quick vote will return him to the Prime Minister's office for a third time. Though not all his allies are as convinced of the wisdom of a quick vote, they don't want to damage their own future by going against him. Critics argue that even if the billionaire leader wins, under the current electoral law, he will lack the necessary leverage to get much done, just as Prodi's government...