The Pope’s Language Lesson
A SENIOR Vatican official has confirmed that sometime soon Pope Benedict XVI will expand permission for use of what’s popularly known as the Latin Mass, the service that was standard before the Second Vatican Council. Though some details remain vague, one point seems all too clear: When the decision officially comes down, its importance will be hyped beyond all recognition, because doing so serves the purposes of both conservatives and liberals within the church, as well as the press.
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Europe Pushes to Get Fuel From Fields
The previous growing season, this lush coastal field near Rome was filled with rows of delicate durum wheat, used to make high-quality pasta. Today it overflows with rapeseed, a tall, gnarled weedlike plant bursting with coarse yellow flowers that has become a new manna for European farmers: rapeseed can be turned into biofuel.
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White House turns to veteran diplomat to head World Bank
The Bush administration, bruised by the fallout after the former Pentagon deputy was forced to step down after granting pay rises to his girlfriend, turned to Mr Zoellick, an experienced Washington insider who served as Condoleezza Rice’s number two at the state department and played a key role in the reunification of Germany in 1990.
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Migrants’ road to UK integration
One in four Eastern European migrants in the UK spends no time with British people, according to a new report. But what do immigrants themselves think are the barriers to integration?
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Arabs make plans for nuclear power
As Iran races ahead with an illicit uranium enrichment effort, nearly a dozen other Middle East nations are moving forward on their own civilian nuclear programs. In the latest development, a team of eight U.N. experts on Friday ended a weeklong trip to Saudi Arabia to provide nuclear guidance to officials from six Persian Gulf countries.
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Tax-cut war widens in Europe
The move toward lower levies on corporate profits in Spain, Germany, France and Britain is aimed at attracting companies and reinforcing the strongest economic expansion in six years. It comes after Ireland and new European Union members from Eastern Europe succeeded in attracting investment, and irking their larger rivals, with tax rates of less than 20%, among the world’s lowest. “The gloves are off,” said Erik Nielsen, chief European economist with Goldman Sachs in London. “Bigger countries are now competing on taxes. This is very much something that will determine how much and where companies want to invest.”
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Rubik’s Cube Made From Magnets and Dice
To Kosovo and back
by Lucy Moore
Over the last decade, my country may have demonstrated a willingness to act the part of the all-knowing middleman, the go-between for two sides incredibly alike in their daily lives and in their half-knowledge of one other, but I for one am not prepared for that role. Yet in my trip, and in this blog, that’s exactly the role I have managed played. Someone is manipulating someone here.
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