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Dalai lama calls for an inquiry of crackdown
The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader and the populace voice of a part now mostly sealed off from the rest of the world, called Sunday for an international investigation into the crackdown against protesters in his fatherland, which he said is faci Mar 17 2008
Dalai lama gives pelosi a warm welcome in india
Using a visit to this state to poke a finger in the eye of Peking, the talker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, on Fri came here to the Dalai Lama's central office, described the events in Tibet as "a challenge to the scruples of th Mar 22 2008
Dangers are many for child survivors of cyclone in myanmar
At risk of disease, abuse and forced recruitment into the armed military unit, children are the most vulnerable survivors of the cyclone that hit Union of Burma, many of them orphaned or lost, fending for themselves. As huge rainstorms drench the oft May 17 2008
Danish youths set fires, attack police in 5th night of violence
: riot youths set fire to cars and trash bins and hurled rocks at police force overnight as a spate of hooliganism continued in Kobenhavn and other Danish cities. Nine young person were arrested in the working capital after a fifth sequentially night of a Feb 16 2008
Darfur withers as sudan sells a food bonanza
Even as it receives a one million million pounds of free food from international donors, Sudan is growth and merchandising vast measure of its own crops to other state, capitalizing on high global food terms at a time when 1000000 of people in its war-rid Aug 11 2008
Dating sites see a bright future amid competition
: Love, Internet-style, is bloom, and that means online dating sites are trying harder than ever to win your heart. But have they met their match in social-networking sites? Worldwide, 97 million people visited Web sites devoted to matchmaking in Dec, acc Feb 7 2008
Daughter of christian music star killed by car
The 5-year-old daughter of Grammy-winning Christian music star Steven Curtis John Chapman was struck and killed Wednesday by a sport public utility vehicle driven by her blood brother, authorities said. The girl, Maria Sue, was hit in the drive of th May 22 2008
David brooks: a date with scarcity
Nov. 4 is a historic day because it marks the end of an economic era, a political era and a generational era all at once. Economically, it marks the end of the Long Boom, which began in 1983. Politically, it likely marks the end of conservativist dom Nov 5 2008
David brooks: a national mobility project
United States's authorities spending is growth at an astounding pace. United States Congress and the president have thrown hundreds of one million million into stimulation packages, domestic help programs, armed forces spending and other enterprise. Nov 1 2008
David brooks: a speech to the delegates
My chap Americans, it is an honor to computer address the Democratic National Convention at this shaping moment in history. We stand at a intersection at a pivot point, near a fork in the road on the edge of a precipice in the midst of the most consequent Aug 30 2008
David brooks: bailout to nowhere
Not so long ago, corporate giants with names like PanAm, ITT and L. M. Montgomery Ward roamed the earth. They faded and were replaced by new companies with names like Microsoft, Southwest air hose and mark. The United States became famous for this fo Nov 15 2008
David brooks: big government ahead
We're in the center of a financial crisis, but most economic expert say there is a broader economic crisis still to come. The unemployment rate will shoot up. Companies will go insolvent. Commercial real estate values will diminution. Credit card def Oct 15 2008
David brooks: change i can believe in
I have dreaming. I may seem like a drilling pundit whose most exotic fantasies involve government policy reports, but deep down, I have dreaming. And right now I'm dream of the successful presidency United States needs. I'm dream of an disposal Nov 8 2008
David brooks: experience matters
Philosophical debates arise at the oddest times, and in the heat of this election season, one is now rise in Republican ranks. The narrow question is this: Is Sarah Palin qualified to be vice president? Most conservatives say yes, on the land th Sep 17 2008
David brooks: harmony and the dream
The world can be divided in many ways - rich and poor, democratic and dictator - but one of the most contact is the divide between the societies with an individualist mentality and the ones with a leftist outlook. This is a divide that goes profoundl Aug 13 2008
David brooks: lord of the memes
Dear Dr. Soren Kierkegaard, All my life I've been a successful pseudo-intellectual, scattering quotations from Kafka, Epictetus and Jacques Derrida into my conversations, impressing dates and devising my friends feel mentally inferior. But over Aug 9 2008
David brooks: missing dean acheson
We Americans are about to enter our 19th sequentially year of Truman-envy. Ever since the German capital Wall fell, people have looked at the way Harry Harry Truman, George C. E. G. Marshall, Dean Dean Acheson and others created forward-looking global est Aug 2 2008
David brooks: revolt of the nihilists
In 1933, John Hope Franklin Roosevelt inherited an economic crisis. He understood that his first job was to restore confidence, to give people a sense that person was in complaint, that something was going to be done. This coevals of American politic Oct 1 2008
David brooks: schools and skills
Why did the United States become the lead economic power of the 20th century? The best short reply is that a ferocious belief that people have the power to transform their own lives gave Americans an unparalleled commitment to instruction, hard work and e Jul 30 2008
David brooks: testing time
Every few years, the world seems to face a new testing time. After Sept. 11, leaders had to fig out how to respond to Islamic extremism. Now we face another test. Today, leaders around the world have to fig out how to stabilize economies amid volatile glo Oct 8 2008 |