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...midwife's struggle to reconcile her conflicting loyalties to party, family and patients forms the backbone of the narrative, which Mo Yan says had been percolating in his head since the early 1980s. "The reason I postponed the writing of Frog was because I had too much to work on, not the sensitivity of the topic," he says. "And anyway, there's no law that prohibits writing...
...tries to keep up with contemporary writers - most of whom also write on uncontroversial subjects, like 20-somethings agonizing over exams, relationships and the like. But Mo Yan says that it's "impossible" for him to enjoy their work. "I won't write those types of novels," he explains, "but I do understand there are reasons for their existence." Mo Yan quite unabashedly says that the desire to escape poverty was the initial reason for the existence of his novels but he adds that it has long been supplanted. "Now that I can afford dumplings, why am I still writing...
...Essen. At the time, it was not uncommon for pedophiles to be prescribed therapy. But the priest was quickly allowed to return to pastoral duties, allowing him to continue abusing minors for several more years. He was convicted of sexual abuse in 1986 - yet still he continued to work as a priest. (Ratzinger moved to Rome in 1982, long before the conviction.) The priest was finally exposed by the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper last week. On March 12, the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising admitted in a statement that "serious mistakes were made in the 1980s." Three days later...
...Benedict know about the priest's swift return to pastoral work after his therapy? The archdiocese says the decision was made by Benedict's then deputy, who has taken full responsibility. But the American priest in Rome says Ratzinger, famously a micromanager, must have known of the decision. "It's probably just a matter of time," the American says, "before it comes out that he did know more than they are saying...
...development aid in the world" fails to exist on the world stage? Its success in building "an attractive social, economic and political model" is no accident. It rose from a somber period in human history where war and death besieged civilization. It exists because hard and sometimes cantankerous work led to complex compromises. (See pictures: "Behind the Scenes with Obama in Europe...